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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIFE Matches Found: 9605 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LITTLE HEALTH, A LITTLE WEALTH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And little cause to need 'em Subject(s): Life "BEHOLD, O LORD, THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "as free-will gifts, as bonds of love" Subject(s): Family Life;jews;love;parents;togetherness; Relatives;judaism;parenthood "CONDUCT, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day Last Line: Another and a happier life for thee Subject(s): Human Behavior;worship; Conduct Of Life;human Nature "PUSHAN, GOD OF PASTURE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pushan, god of golden day" Last Line: And we follow ever more! Subject(s): Farm Life;fields;slavery; Agriculture;farmers;pastures;meadows;leas;serfs "THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain Last Line: O' respond both land and sea Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean 11/10 AGAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the radiance around the body Last Line: Encasing your human heart. Subject(s): Humanity; Spiritual Life 1914: 4. THE DEAD, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hearts were woven of human joys and cares Last Line: A width, a shining peace, under the night. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties 1930'S, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus / hides the Subject(s): Conduct Of Life 1933, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: My grandfather is locked out of his house Last Line: To show him anything is possible Subject(s): Family Life 1945, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing consoled aunt rose when roosevelt died Last Line: How my uncles were, when they'd be coming home Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Scenes From War: Voices From 194 Subject(s): Death; Family Life; World War Ii 1950, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1950 was the perfect year to be born Subject(s): Time; Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity 1959, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The year I was born my mother ate nothing but oranges Last Line: He proclaims may she peel the skin from this schizophrenic age Subject(s): Continents; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Family Life; Love - Cultural Differences; Travel 20, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is 20 Subject(s): Nature; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life 27-MAR, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hat he bought in 1949, for Last Line: And he would finish his scraping, god or no god Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Life; Religion 2:00 A. M. CALL, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source Last Line: They'll still be dead in the morning Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life 2:00 A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She awoke in the night and thought about dying Last Line: And go back to sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 30TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I never be afraid Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Conduct Of Life 340 B.C., by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Alexander and his lover Last Line: And gay persepolis aflame Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality 4TH STREET, 2 O'CLOCK, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: When the sluggish, hot wind arrives I think of the day Last Line: What am I if not space filled with biting? Subject(s): Life; Time 95 POEMS: 42, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From spiralling ecstatically this Last Line: #name? Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life Change Events 95 POEMS: 92, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry your heart with me (I carry it in Last Line: I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): I Carry Your Heart With Me(i Carry It I Subject(s): Life Change Events ?, by F. A." "LE H. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: This mortal body that I wear Last Line: The light of hope may linger still Alternate Author Name(s): "le H., F. A.; Subject(s): Quiet Life A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine - bring wine! Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine A BACK-LYING FARM, by JAMES LOGIE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: A back-lying farm but lately taken in Last Line: She twined the long wan grasses in her hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Haliburton, Hugh Subject(s): Country Life A BACKWARD LOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday Last Line: Than it ever will have again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a princely chamber sat Last Line: For him is set for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A BALLAD OF A COWARD, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets pealed; the echoes sang Last Line: And happy and amazed fell dead. Subject(s): Cowardice; Death; Family Life; Redemption; War; Dead, The; Relatives A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors A BALLAD OF BURDENS, FR. STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of fair women. Vain delight Last Line: This is the end of every man's desire. Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Burden Subject(s): Grief; Life; Trials; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In magic books she read at night Last Line: Of death is love and life.' Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers Last Line: Ballad, and on thy mouth. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nightmares A BALLAD OF PAST MERIDIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last [or, one] night returning from my twilight walk Last Line: Of death, of life, those inwound notes are mine. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BALLAD TO MRS. CATHERINE FLEMING IN LONDON, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From me, who whilom sung the town Last Line: With a fa-la &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Country Life A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, dick, where I have been Last Line: With bridget and with nell. Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Cities; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song; Urban Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise Last Line: Ferever an' ferever! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A BIRTHDAY SALUTATION TO HELEN KELLER, by ELIOT WHITE Poem Text First Line: So runs the proverb of the long ago Last Line: And all the cherished beauty of your life. Subject(s): Birthdays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life A BIT OF SKY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We search Last Line: Before we die ... Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Life A BLOCKHEAD, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before me lies a mass of shapeless days Subject(s): Life Change Events A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lighten, heavy heart, thy sprite Last Line: To view a stream that brightly flows. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hearts content can he find Last Line: His steadfast heart that is ... Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 41, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether men do laugh or weep Last Line: And that happy men disdain. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune thy music to thy heart Last Line: Love alone to him is ever pleasing. Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life A BORDER AFFAIR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spanish is the lovin' tongue Last Line: "adios, mi corazon." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Love - Cultural Differences; Love Affairs; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother rode off on his bike Last Line: I at last can claim them as my own Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A BUCOLICK BETWIXT TWO: LACON AND THYRSIS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a kiss or two, confess Last Line: Earth afford ye flowers to strew. Subject(s): Country Life A BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses ruddy and roses white Last Line: Bending his head to a bunch of roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Hearts; Life; Roses; Dead, The A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead Last Line: Hallelujah, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Old Friends Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold where beauty walks with peace! Last Line: Between this land and paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California; Christmas; Life; Nativity, The A CALL, FR, THE POET'S VOCATION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the music of the morns Last Line: "crying: ""come to me! Come to me!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A CANARY AT THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks has be'n to town, and sahry Last Line: A high-priceter cage 'n that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Canaries; Farm Life; Music & Musicians; Agriculture; Farmers A CANTICLE OF TIME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hours of grieving, / hours of thought Last Line: Saith the soul. Subject(s): Life; Time A CEDARY FRAGRANCE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even now / decades after Last Line: To make the unwanted wanted Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A CERTAIN MAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man over there Last Line: . . . Like his prayer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A CHARACTER AND A QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a dubious, strange, uncomprehended life" Last Line: "stars in his hand, and shall not he judge well?" Subject(s): Life A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above." Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHILD OF TODAY, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: O child, had I thy lease of time! Such unimagined things Last Line: How strange! -- perhaps death's conqueror sits smiling on my knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Children; Modern Life; Childhood A CHILD TASTES THE LOVELINESS OF LIFE AND FASHIONS A NEW DREAM, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: When I am grown I shall eat citron Last Line: Appraising a pale chartreuse!) Subject(s): Dreams; Growth; Life; Nightmares A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA. 1953, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marching through georgia to bed, he stopped, listened, Subject(s): Georgia (state); Christmas; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Nativity, The; Relatives A CHINESE POET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the lightest breeze Last Line: One leaf, or life, more? Subject(s): Leaves; Life; Poetry & Poets A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen. Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ma she's home - an' I'm 'way here Last Line: I ist only want my ma! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Nativity, The; Relatives A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by THOMAS BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: Father in heaven, lift us into the light Last Line: In gloomy spirits, through the coming year. Subject(s): Christmas; God; Heaven; Life; Prayer; Nativity, The; Paradise A CHRISTMAS SCENE; OR, LOVE IN THE COUNTRY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill blast comes howling through leaf-rifted trees Last Line: What care I? -- my darling's entwined in my arms. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Love; Nativity, The A CITY DWELLER, by JACQUES REDA Poem Text First Line: The street I walk along I often see Last Line: Magazine. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives A CITY FLOWER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To and fro in the city I go Last Line: That had settled over my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a close and lowly nook Last Line: God grant some day your dreams come true. Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A CITY VOICE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside here in the city the burning pavements lie Last Line: And god's green trees and god's blue skies above me for a space. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Nature; Urban Life A CLEARING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lies at the end of enticing Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape A COLOR OF THE SKY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Windy today and I feel less than brilliant, Last Line: And making more Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Conduct Of Life A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end. Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A COMPARISON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough Last Line: And, like all toys, ephemeral. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life A CONSIDERABLE SPECK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A speck that would have been beneath my sight Last Line: On any sheet the least display of mind Subject(s): Kindness; Conduct Of Life A CONTEMPLATION ON MAN'S LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "vile composition, earth inspir'd with breath" Last Line: Therefore on that thy utmost care employ Subject(s): Life A CONTRAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you open that ebony casket? Last Line: Who is living in me to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Memory; Tears; Time A CONVERSATION IN STEREO, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were always two of everything (one for each of us) but Last Line: Tells a joke, how I kept the womb warm for the second one Subject(s): Family Life A COTTAGE MONARCHY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should he ask to share the fate Last Line: Of love's successful government. Subject(s): Country Life A COTTAGE SCENE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a cradle at a cottage door Last Line: From earth to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; Thanksgiving A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blow the snow about Last Line: But I shall stay at home. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection A COUNTRY CHURCH, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: I think god seeks this house, serenely white Last Line: And christ grew up in rural galilee. Subject(s): Churches; Country Life; Cathedrals A COUNTRY DANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle away, old time - / fiddle away, old fellow! Last Line: Fiddle them, dear old fellow! Subject(s): Country Life; Dancing & Dancers; Love A COUNTRY GOD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When groping farms are lanterned up Last Line: And summer not to come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A COUNTRY LIFE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird that I don't know, Last Line: Sees, in the moonlight, graves Subject(s): Birds; Country Life A COUNTRY LIFE: TO HIS BROTHER, MR. THEO. HERRICL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou Last Line: Nor feare, or wish your dying day. Subject(s): Country Life A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone Last Line: That wanders home to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails A COUNTRY SUMMER PASTORAL; FROM ETYMOLOGICAL DEDUCTIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would flee from the city's rule and law Last Line: Of grasshoppers out to grass Subject(s): Country Life;nonsense;summer A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god. Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY AT THE CARNIVAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yes, o' cose it's interestin' to a feller from the range" Last Line: An' he thinks o' nothin' but his grub an' hoss an' steers Subject(s): Carnivals;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY RACE, by JO CULBERTSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A pattering rush like the rattle of hail Last Line: The gauntlet is flung and the race is begun! Subject(s): Competition; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I could not be so well content Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States A COWBOY TOAST, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer Last Line: With cattle, cattle, cattle, and sage and sand and sun. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S HOPELESS LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard that story ofttimes about that little chap Last Line: An' shun the loco weed o' love when there's an angel round. Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the last steer has been branded" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whar y'u from, little stranger, little boy?" Subject(s): Boys;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ust to read in the novel books 'bout fellers that Last Line: An' a-throwin' the breath o' life away bunched up into sighs. Heigh-ho! Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A CRY FOR CONQUEST, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let me out into the starlight night Last Line: Stand steadfast in the consciousness of power! Subject(s): Desire; Life; Stars A CURIOUS LIFE POEM, by MRS. H. A. DEMING Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? Last Line: 38. William shakespeare Variant Title(s): Life (a Literary Curiosity) Subject(s): Life; Writing & Writers A DANCE AT THE RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from every point they gaily come, the bronco's unshod feet" Subject(s): Cowboys;dancing & Dancers;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A DAY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To amuse myself Last Line: From the muzzle of an oblivious volcano Subject(s): Life Choices A DAY IN MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look forth, beloved, from thy mansion high Last Line: And die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Life; March (month); Seasons A DAY IN THE CITY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismounting from stools and benches, pouring through bars Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a year out of my life and story Last Line: "and so dost thou." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The A DEATH OF A FIRST-BORN (JANUARY 14, 1892), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One young life lost, two happy young lives blighted Last Line: Shall rise up of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A DEFECTIVE SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allus when our pa he's away Last Line: "trip bark' two times 'fore it's ""a-men!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives; Nicholas, Saint A DEW SUFFICED ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And doom's celerity Subject(s): Life; Dew A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THYRSIS AND DORINDA, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death shall part [or, snatch] us from these kids Last Line: So shall we smoothly pass away in sleep. Subject(s): Country Life A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing divine astrea's praise Last Line: But silence, nought can praise her. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Country Life A DIEU! AND AU REVOIR!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As you love me, let there be Last Line: "his father!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A DISCOVERY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst moment / in my life Last Line: Where my wife put them. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life A DIZZYING SURMISE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if that fieriest substance - found so late Last Line: When the loosed afreet towered against the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 10 Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Hate; Life; Love; Destiny A DOMESTIC STORM, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to whoop you, sammy taylor Last Line: Guess you will, you rascal, you. Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives A DOUBTFUL CHOICE, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I a king I might command content Last Line: A kingdom! Or a cottage! Or a grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 16;a Choice;epigram Subject(s): Death; Life; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares A DREAM OF LIFE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty Last Line: And duty wandered by my side along. Subject(s): Life A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ditch by the dirt back road Subject(s): Country Life; Automobile Drivers A DUBIOUS 'OLD KRISS', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us-folks is purty pore - but ma Last Line: "him skite out -- an' it wuz her pa." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives A FAIR FARMER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fannie's going in for farming Last Line: That I'll be her husbandman! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FAREWELL TO FOLLY: CONTENT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content Last Line: A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Variant Title(s): A Mind Content;maesia's Song;a Contented Mind;song Subject(s): Contentment; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers A FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say goodbye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota; Agriculture; Farmers A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A FARMHOUSE DIRGE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk with me to the brow of the hill, to visit the farmer's wife Last Line: When the heart grows weak, then hope grows strong, but stronger than hope is death. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FATHER TELLS HIS SON, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about his life is the amount of time he has spent w Subject(s): Worry; Conduct Of Life; Anxiety A FENCECROW IN EARLY MARCH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last snowdrifts Subject(s): Winter; Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers A FICTION HOW CUPID MADE A NYMPH WOUND HERSELF, by A. W. Poem Text First Line: It chanced of late a shepherd's swain Last Line: And laughs that pleasant sight to see. Subject(s): Country Life; Love A FILIAL REPUBLIC, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And out on the plaza, there were more people Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): City & Town Life A FINE SUMMER MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a full cousin, called arthur macnide Last Line: "so I bid you a very good morning." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Army Life; Militarism; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics A FULL HARVEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day Last Line: On'y jes' waste it all on me and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers A GIRL'S FAITH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the miles that stretch between Last Line: Whose smile shall wake my world to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Girls; God; Life; Belief; Creed; Destiny A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: The sun came out of the east Last Line: And found a place in the west. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States A GOOD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A good man never dies Last Line: A good man never dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A GOOD RULE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer, who owned a fine orchard, one day Last Line: So, what you're ashamed to do, don't do at all. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Cures; Sin; Conduct Of Life A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full 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 GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A HAPPY CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother stands at the screen door, laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A HEIFER CLAMBERS UP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A HIGHLAND VILLAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shining after the rain Last Line: Clear shining after the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farm Life; Highlands Of Scotland; Agriculture; Farmers A HILL OF BEANS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One spring the circus gave Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A HINT TO THE FARMERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers, whose income, day by day Last Line: "the public will find railing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Kisses; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A HOBO VOLUNTARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the hobo's life is a roving life Last Line: For the life of a hobo, never to return. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Railways; Trains A HOLIDAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house is like a garden Last Line: Some women are like that, do what you may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Home; Labor & Laborers; Love; Relatives; Work; Workers A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets. Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A HOUSE IN THE HEDGE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All architecture done, / and housekeeping begun Last Line: God's smile come radiant through. Subject(s): Birds; Family Life; Home; Relatives A HYMB OF FAITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, thou that doth all things devise Last Line: To overlook the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Life; Belief; Creed; Paradise A KIND OF MUSIC, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irrelevance charactizes the behavior of our puppy Subject(s): Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A KING AND NO KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That prince, who may doe nothing but what's just Last Line: Rules but by leave, and takes his crowne on trust. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A KNIGHT-ERRANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he lived and died among us Last Line: Raised his eyes to god, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Truth; Dead, The A LADY TO A YOUNG COURTIER, by HENRY HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Love thee! Good sooth, not I Last Line: Who can deny such blades a bit! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath known the ways of time Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate. Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery A LAY OF THE LOCH AND THE MUIRLAN', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lanely loch, a muirlan' broon Last Line: An' there's the railway station. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Change; Life A LAZY THOUGHT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There go the grownups Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A LEAF FALLS, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: The lyric rustle of a leaf Last Line: Shall claim eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Leaves; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE Poem Text First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A LETTER FROM HOME, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sends me news of bluejays, frost Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives A LIFE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn you curl up in the top branches Last Line: In the darkness below. Subject(s): Life A LIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness A LIFE, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He woke in spring, when april winds blew cold Last Line: His life, which april first had chilled—and died. Subject(s): Life A LIFE IN THE COUNTRY (STANZAS FOR MUSIC), by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! A life in the country how joyous Last Line: "though, &c." Subject(s): Country Life A LIFE OF CRIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail friends, I love you all! Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A LIFE TERM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was false, and he was true, Last Line: Of the violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners A LITTLE BEFORE ME, AND HARK, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To move and to suffer divine Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: A little girl in school Last Line: How merry were the days! Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an' Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples A LITTLE LONGER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Beloved, can we bid thee linger here! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Love; Spring A LITTLE ROAD NOT MADE OF MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Evangelists record, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A LITTLE SONG OF LIFE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad that I live am I Last Line: Nearer the sky. Subject(s): Life; Nature A LIZ-TOWN HUMORIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Settin' round the stove, last night Last Line: And you'd ort o' heerd 'em yell! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Watermelons A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ENVOY, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I have play'd the little hour Last Line: Of joy, and then our infinite alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Variant Title(s): Reunited Subject(s): Diaries; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall A MAN AGAINST TIME, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Names of vast cities off beyond your years Last Line: But for my faith in my abandoned peers. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life A MAN IN HIS LIFE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in his life has no time to have Last Line: To the place where there is time for everything Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience A MAN LOST BY A RIVER, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a voice inside the body Last Line: For no good reason Subject(s): Life Choices A MARCH SNOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the old snow be covered with the new Last Line: Even as the new snow covers up the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; March (month); Snow; World A MARLOW MADRIGAL, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bisham banks are fresh and fair Last Line: At good old marlow town! Subject(s): Country Life A MARRIAGE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother knew why her treatment wasn't working, Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives A MARRIAGE POEM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: the caged baby Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MEMORIAL ABSTRACT OF A SERMON PREACHED ON PROVERBS, XX, 27, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human spirit, when it burns and shines Last Line: And shine for ever in jehovah's sight. Subject(s): Humanity; Life; Nature; Sermons A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY OF 1876, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ages past, before the forest deep Last Line: In the valley of the blue juniata. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Memory; Past A MONODY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hour after hour Last Line: Eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A MORAL THOUGHT, by JOHN HAWKESWORTH Poem Text First Line: Through groves sequestered, dark and still Last Line: "and mingles with eternity." Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A MORNING AFTER MOURNING, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me no longer presse your gentle eies Last Line: Saints triumph, princes wed; and court and country feaste's. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MOUNTAIN PICTURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the cabin old Last Line: By mountain walls surrounded. Subject(s): Country Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A MULTITUDINOUS ME, by MARIA JOHNS HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: What makes me look as I look? Last Line: In all of the life that I live, every hour, every day! Subject(s): Life A MUNICIPAL REPORT; DEDICATION TO 'THE SEVEN SEAS', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cities are full of pride Last Line: And mine I hold at her hands! Variant Title(s): To The City Of Bombay Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Urban Life A MYSTERY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life held in her hands a measure Last Line: And life held the scale in suspense. Subject(s): Life; Mystery A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!" Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW BIRTH, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fate, my portion in the strife Last Line: Submissive to thy will! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW CONSTELLATION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We go intertwined, him and you Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A NEW DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if already pulsed in every part Last Line: For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW LIFESTYLE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in this town drink too much Subject(s): Coffee; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NEW SCULPTOR, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once to my fancy's hall a stranger came Last Line: "here is thy neighbor." Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Sculpture & Sculptors A NEW SONG OF THE MILL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In youth we sang 'the song of the mill' Last Line: And heaving booms across the bay. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A NEW YORK CHILD?ÇÖS GARDEN OF VERSES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I get up at night Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Youth; City & Town Life; Family Life; Relatives A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A NEW-YEAR ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled Last Line: One heart benign, one soul supreme, one conquering name. Subject(s): Death; God; Holidays; Life; New Year; Dead, The A NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got home late and drank most Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime A NOON LULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possum in de 'tater-patch Last Line: Drapt in de turnip-hole, chasin' f'um de cow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Opossums; Weasels; Agriculture; Farmers; Possums A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A NUT HARD TO CRACK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says john to his mother, 'look here! Look here Last Line: "your nut will be hard to crack." Subject(s): Nuts & Nutting; Conduct Of Life A NYMPH'S PASSION, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, and he loves me again Last Line: If love, or fear, would let me tell his name. Subject(s): Country Life A PAEAN TO THE DAWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dusky sky fades into blue Last Line: I see the sunrise brighten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Sunrise A PAINTING OF MA-LIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just because you painted it so, ma-lin Last Line: Give wings to the heart! Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Death; Life; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The A PANIC CAN STILL COME UPON ME, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If today and today I am calling aloud Subject(s): Life A PARABLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: With limbs at rest on the earth's green breast Last Line: The liberty they love. Subject(s): Freedom; Human Behavior; Nature; Liberty; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PARTING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Gratitude; Life; Love; Parting A PARTING GUEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What delightful hosts are they Last Line: "thanks. -- so fine a time good night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Love A PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, dear alexis, tell thy damon, why Last Line: Whom present you revere, him absent praise. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Heaven; Life; Soul; Tears; Paradise A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: SHEPHERD, NYMPH, CHORUS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mossy bank they pressed Last Line: Grief interrupted speech with tears' supplies. Subject(s): Country Life A PASTORAL OF TASSO, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy golden age Last Line: Comes once to set, it makes eternal night. Subject(s): Country Life; Grief; Life; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm very happy where I am Last Line: Oh! Nobody but me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Variant Title(s): The Exiled Mother Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; Homesickness A PINDARIC ODE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave infant of saguntum clear Last Line: Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in. Variant Title(s): To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry Morrison;the Ode On Cary And Morison Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Courage; Death; Life; Morison, Sir Henry (1608-1629); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The A PINDARICK TO MRS. BEHN ON HER POEM ON THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, thou sole empress of the land of wit" Last Line: Since the first mother of mankind rebell'd Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);james Ii, King Of England (1633-1701);life;poetry & Poets;women; A PIONEER WOMAN, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: A statue stands in a city block Last Line: "to lie in an unmarked grave." Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Statues; Heroines A PLACE IN KANSAS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in kansas, a friend found Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A PLACE OF REFUGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In this my den the haunting muse Last Line: In this my den. Subject(s): Calm; Quiet Life; Rooms; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility A PLANTATION BACCHANAL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en ole mister sun gits tiah'd a-hangin' Last Line: Twill take care of itself. Subject(s): Plantation Life A PLANTATION SCENE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all you picaninnies dar, come stan' up in er row Last Line: When I wuz onc't er little nig, en stood up in dat row. Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Negroes; American Blacks A PLAQUE FOR FOREST PARK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrapin at times must surely tire Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PLEA TO LIFE, by MARTHA STONEHILL FERNBERG Poem Text First Line: Life - I am here at your bidding Last Line: For I have won the fight. Subject(s): Life A POET'S HOUSEHOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The stout poet tiptoes Last Line: Is chanting words to himself. Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963); Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Feminism A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE LITTLE ANNUITANT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: He has departed by the road, the poor man, summoning up such Last Line: So opportunely comes? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny A POTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How brew the brave drink life? Last Line: Then down with the brave drink life! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Moon; Pain; Sin; Wine; Suffering; Misery A PRAYER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not wealth, but power to take Last Line: Fresh and unfailing to the last! Subject(s): Prayer; Conduct Of Life A PRAYER, by CATHARINE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Lord, let me think of life as an account Last Line: God grant the balance may be on the right! Subject(s): Books; God; Life; Prayer; Reading A PRAYER (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dying, let me know Last Line: Loving life for its own sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Life A PRAYER FOR BROKEN LITTLE FAMILIES, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, pity broken little families Last Line: Growing, day by day, more closely into oneness with each other. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me too brave to lie or be unkind Last Line: Let me be joy, be hope! Let my life sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A PRAYER FOR LIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the country light, o lord Last Line: And make my blindman's holidays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Country Life; God; Light; Prayer; Visually Handicapped A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little conjurer of keys Last Line: Little conjurer of keys. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A PROTEST, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 4 Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUEEN'S LAMENT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: What shall I do with my elaine, edith, alys Last Line: I who dare not tell them how I walked the same way! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Independence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A QUERY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should a good angel and a bad between Last Line: Which would the good one go to, which the bad? Subject(s): Angels; Conduct Of Life A QUERY, by GEORGE WESLEY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Does stygic darkness reign wherein you dwell? Last Line: More blind are they who will not use their eyes? Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Peace; Soul; Visually Handicapped A QUESTION, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can't the child yet walk alone?' Last Line: "smiling, not repining!" Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives A QUESTION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can tell which guide were best Last Line: In sunshine born of thought and love. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Thought; Vision; Nightmares; Thinking A QUESTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice said, look me in the stars Last Line: Were not too much to pay for birth Subject(s): Life A QUICK ONE BEFORE I GO, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a time in every man's life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets A RANGER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never made parade of tooth or claw Last Line: And he labored with the sinners of the trail. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A REAL STORY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sucking on hard candy Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives A REMOVAL FROM TERRY STREET, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a squeaking cart, they push the usual stuff Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A RETROSPECT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this fair point of present bliss Last Line: And so rejoice my life may be all consecrated, dear, to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A REVERIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Last Line: And broken hedge-flowers sweet, mark his impetuous way. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers A REVERIE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I linger in the sacred fane of god's eternal light Last Line: Of servant to all diviner art. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Vision A RHAPSODY OF LIFE'S PROGRESS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born into life - it is sweet, it is strange Last Line: Thou art sweet, thou art strange! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A RIBBON TWO YARDS WIDE....., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A ROOM IN THE PAST, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's a kitchen. Its curtains fill Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives A ROW IN AN OMNIBUS BOX; A LEGEND OF THE HAYMARKET, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dol-drum the manager sits in his chair Last Line: About nothing on earth but 'fiddle-de-dee'! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life A RULE OF LIFE, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Use up thy store, for thou must die Last Line: Expense and thrift in balance fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A RUSTIC ODE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Well may poets make a fuss Last Line: This endless meal of brick. Variant Title(s): Ode. Imitated From Horace Subject(s): Country Life A SATYR, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: As dungeons are for criminals prepared Last Line: Make me true christian, tho' no satyrist. Subject(s): Life; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin; Women A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A SELF-SERVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such was his greed of life and dread of the voidness of the tomb Last Line: And has taken with him only the pale posthumous tick of time. Subject(s): Coffins; Faces; Life; Soul A SERIOUS REFLECTION ON HUMAN LIFE, SELECTION, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: How vain is man! How foolish are his ways! Last Line: "and make out one continued scene of woe." Subject(s): Life; Pessimism; Transience; Impermanence A SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: And forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farm Life; Heritage; Heredity; Agriculture; Farmers A SHEAF OF PLEASANT VOICES, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rooftops Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The A SHORT'NIN' BREAD SONG - PIECED OUT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behine de hen-house, on my Last Line: (chorus) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 34. THE NEW MISTRESS, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? Last Line: Sick.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; England; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics; English A SICKNESS OF THIS WORLD IT MOST OCCASIONS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For deity Subject(s): Life A SIDE STREET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the warm sunday afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): City & Town Life A SIMPLE SERMON FOR COUNTRY COTTAGERS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A workman worth your weight in gold Last Line: Who works for him his wage is sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Country Life; Houses A SKETCH FROM LIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its eyes are gray Last Line: To life! Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SLUMBER STORY, by ROBERT J. IRISH Poem Text First Line: At slumber time the nodding heads Last Line: My faith becomes the firmer. Subject(s): Children; Faith; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Childhood; Belief; Creed; Theology A SMALL ROOM IN ASPEN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stains on the casements Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire. Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SOLACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Think not of all the loved ones you have lost Last Line: And thank god for his goodness and his grace. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Gratitude; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SOLEMN THING IT WAS, I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and I sneered softly ""small""!" Subject(s): Life; Size & Shape A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER, by WALTER HARTE Poem Text First Line: Happy insect! Ever blest Last Line: Thou art starved, and so am I! Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Insects; Life; Bugs A SON WITH A FUTURE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was four years old, he stood at the window during a Subject(s): Sons; Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The A SONG (2), by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Life is but a troubled ocean Last Line: And softly whisper -- peace, be still. Subject(s): Life A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Seems it so sad and strange Last Line: Thee to his breast! Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF CONTRDICTIONS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passions, in festival meeting Last Line: And light in the desolate soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, at night, in the manor wood Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1867. Revised in 1879. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SONG OF FATE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Life is short, the sea is wide, my sweet. Our eyes will rarely meet 'tis Last Line: And our love and your long waiting true and the new love that will come to you. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Destiny; Songs A SONG OF LIFE, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For god, the living lord, my soul's athirst Last Line: Each soul of life his god must bless. Subject(s): God; Jews; Life; Praise; Judaism A SONG OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song, boys, a song! Last Line: So, boys, a song! Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rapture of life and of living Last Line: And as full of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul A SONG OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, for the backaches our fathers enjoyed Last Line: The lingering nightmare, of nervous prostration. Subject(s): Life, Modern A SONNET, by JOHANN SIGURJONSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has departed: early days' sweet scent Last Line: With suppliant hands, thy shining rays I seize. Subject(s): Life A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion A SOUND IS LIKE ANY OTHER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once thought a low chord Last Line: Terror, remorse, pleasure and triumph Subject(s): Sound; Life A SPECK ON THE DOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe this world is the tiniest dot Last Line: I've got all eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Life Change Events; World A SPIRITUAL LEGEND, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were who spiritual legends feigned Last Line: Thus he, the legend spiritual who feigned. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Paradise; Holy Spirit A STAR-GAZER GOES HIGHER, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He read the vaulted heavens for his book Last Line: What fadeless stars, what never-setting sun? Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise A STORY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a gleam of sunshine a gentian stood Last Line: The bee flew over the plain. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Love A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 4, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now while these evil ones took counsel strange Last Line: Shall bless me also. Sir, I love you well.' Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Relatives A STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you ever told the legend old Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves." Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A STRANGE CITY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A wondrous city, that had temples there Last Line: As I do now, in these dear months I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two narrow files of houses scowl Last Line: The sweetness here of any rose. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET SCENE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The east is a clear violet mass Last Line: Turns back, and looks again. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A SUMMER EVENING, SELECTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the deep, the miry lane Last Line: And join the general troop of sleep. Subject(s): Country Life A SUNRISE SONG, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands Last Line: Blaze saladin still, with unforgiving fire? Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Sunrise A SUNSET OF THE CITY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Relatives A SURVEY OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, by MOSES BROWNE Poem Text First Line: On, pegasus! Why, whither turn ye? Last Line: To die—but get their living by't. Subject(s): Fights; Italian Renaissance; Sports - Arenas & Stadia; Theater & Theaters; Travel; Stage Life; Journeys; Trips A TALE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This youth too long has heard the break Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Youth; Life A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhone and rhine they run so free Last Line: My mortal part in hampton gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cities; Oxford University; Urban Life A TEAR, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that the chemist's magic art Last Line: And guides the planets in their course. Subject(s): Life; Tears A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Look at their faces. You know it all. Subject(s): Marriage; Anniversaries; Life Choices; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A THIRST AGAINST, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hunger for order / but a thirst against. What if Last Line: In these chicago avenues Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A THOUGHT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the harm that women have done Last Line: To keep a small girl for the tenth of a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A THOUGHT ON ETERNITY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er the foundations of the world were laid Last Line: Ten thousand thousand rolling years are nought. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A THOUGHTLESS GUEST, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: We gave you mountain fare Last Line: Is naught to mountain men. Subject(s): Guests; Mountain Life - Vermont; Rudeness; Visiting; Bad Manners A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TOAST FOR LITTLE IRON MIKE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having come in out of the unrelenting Subject(s): Amniotic Fluid Embolism; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives A TRAGEDY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Death! / plop / the barges down in the river flop Last Line: Plop. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Tragedy; Dead, The A TRAIN WINDOW, SELS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gride and screech of snorting locomotives Last Line: Who are the lovers there? Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A TUNE FOR THE TELETYPE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O teletype, tell us of time-clocks and trouble Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Office Work; Life, Modern A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane Last Line: Just that, and nothing more. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A VALENTINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There was a time, when we were young together Last Line: The rose of health. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth A VERMONT AUCTIONEER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er an auction bill I see Last Line: He lived and died an auctioneer. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Villages; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A VERMONT KITCHEN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady some call 'mrs. Looz' Last Line: No stranger, though a tramp, could stifle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT PASTURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have to work your tillage land Last Line: Upon your pastur ledges. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT RASCAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every town has got, I guess ...' Last Line: He'll have no gravestone when he's gone. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont A VINDICATION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I claim the eternal right to love, without conditions Last Line: Till he restored thee, smiling, unto me. Subject(s): Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laura, my laura! Yes, mother! I Last Line: "but I'll say to him, ""o my poor father, we wait you, come in.""'" Subject(s): Arbors; Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Mothers; Sun; Relatives A VIRGIN LIFE, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Since gracious heven, you have bestow'd on me Last Line: To serve her god, her neighbour, and her friends. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Virginity; Theology; Vestals A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery A VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Around the gods, each seated on a throne Last Line: And sparkled in their grand majestic heads. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A VISIT, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: As she stirred her coffee at dinner in our house Last Line: Whereupon I went out in the garden and threw stones at the hens. Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Guests; Relatives; Visiting A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers A VOICE FROM TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, in the days of my droving Last Line: Is youth -- and I've thrown it away. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Towns; Voices; Youth A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors A WALGETT EPISODE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes down with a blinding glare Last Line: Like a tangible thing upon walgett town. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Agriculture; Farmers A WALK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cow-honeybourne, that dost survey Last Line: The priestess and the bread. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Walking A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WAR STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): World War Ii; Guests; Family Life; Second World War; Visiting; Relatives A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My yard with its pines is almost spherical in winter Last Line: Falling off the dangerous, true edge of daylight. Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life; Widows & Widowers; Winter; Bedtime A WIFE EXPLAINS WHY SHE LIKES THE COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because those cows in the bottomland are black and white, colors Subject(s): Country Life; Likes & Dislikes A WINTER REVERIE ON A WESTERN PLAIN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hills or mountains grace the vast expanse Last Line: Of earthly gain, the longest hope of many prayers. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A WINTER SCENE AND REFLECTIONS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To get at nature's finer nobler grace and power Last Line: Of mind and heart, a lumed light of all eternity. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Nature; Winter A WISH, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine be a cot beside the hill Last Line: And point with taper spire to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Wishes A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials A WOMAN WAKING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wakens early remembering Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives A WOODLAND SEAT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this pleasant wood, beside the lane Last Line: Life may meet joys where few intruders be. Subject(s): Country Life A WORKING SMITH ALL OTHER TRADES EXCELS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "honest, and just, and loyal to the crown" Subject(s): Blacksmiths;country Life A WRONG INFERENCE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, old uncle abe, if your tidings are true Last Line: "twas er ox an' er 'oman dat made de plow go." Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Progress; Negroes; American Blacks; Agriculture; Farmers A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Old, junked machinery Last Line: With a yard-fence and flower-beds. Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Repairing; Agriculture; Farmers; Mending A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers A!, by LYDIA AVLONITI Poem Source First Line: Without sacrifices Last Line: The children will despise us Subject(s): Children; Life; Poetry And Poets A' - 18, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An unearthing / my valentine Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation A. MACHINE, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, I am learning what it means to ride condemned. Last Line: When you get this message, will you sigh, my lover is gone Subject(s): Life A.W.O.L., by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When justice, not sweet charity, confers on all Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ABANDONED FARMSTEAD, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Across the distance of contested lands Last Line: In a car that shrank upon a shrinking road, %until the last speck of farmstead disappeared Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; Prairies ABANDONED RANCH, BIG BEND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three people come where no people belong anymore Last Line: The steady cool mercy of their unreproachful eyes Subject(s): Ranch Life ABANDONED ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wheel ruts scarred the bedrock here and there Last Line: A road that leads to nowhere for no reason Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ABNEGATION, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT Poem Text First Line: Should wilding foot no more this woodpath follow Last Line: My heart long dead, grant body, too, may die! Subject(s): Aging; Life ABNEGATION, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, dear christ, were the wood-ways sweet Last Line: Ay,—and for that dost thou live! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry ABOARD, by AMY DRYANSKY Poem Source First Line: They say home's where the heart is, but what if it's only a place Last Line: How many leaks can one boat spring? Subject(s): Home; Life; Travel ABOUT THE SECOND-LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: The dog-rose and the marguerite Subject(s): Country Life ABOUT WRITING AND PUBLISHING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There's more to writing poetry than you think Last Line: It might be better Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ABOVE A SNOW (BETWEEN A SUN AND ETERNITY), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Not even her slenderness of perfect weight, lying here Last Line: The imagined tunnel; and she also saw the red sun rise above the snow Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Memory ABSENCE, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: I visited the place where we last met Last Line: Were shaken by my thinking of your name Subject(s): Life Change Events ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The ABSENCE PROVES NOTHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Fear; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations ABSENT, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Bells do not ring %when our names are called Last Line: If you have us here %to keep yourselves separate Subject(s): Family Life - India ABSOLUTION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes by angels of the mind Last Line: Forgiveness, too terrible to be born! Subject(s): Absolution; Desire; Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 1. DANTE MOUNTING TO THE ROSE OF HEAVEN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not one of us Last Line: Of implacable bright Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 2. AT ELEUSIS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Even at eleusis, %after the long journey Last Line: Then silence. Then they saw Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 3. A CELEBRATION, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: And then quiet Last Line: But that, too, %maintaining its fixities Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ABUNDANCE OF BRIGHTNESS: 4. THE CLINGING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The I ching calls it clinging, fire Last Line: But clings to the burning object %and thus is bright' Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ACANTHUS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you shut your eyes, you find a string Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ACCEPTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Into the future. Let what will be, be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The ACCEPTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Let the night be too dark for me to see %into the future. Let what will be be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets ACCEPTING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-blind, it is al;ways twilight Last Line: Given or what to make of them Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Birth; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery ACCOUNTABILITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits Last Line: Viney, go put on de kittle, I got one o' mastah's chickens. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ACQUA FREDDA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By acqua fredda's cloister-wall Last Line: Long lost to me, is treasured there. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Life; Soul; Youth ACQUISITION, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: With life before us in the way Last Line: And find the sought star six feet down. Subject(s): Life ACROSS THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a dizzy roof which towered Last Line: Reveals but mounds of vanished majesty. Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues ACROSS THE INTERVALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along life's lowlands, petty men Last Line: Like peaks across an intervale. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Sky; Soul; Inspiration; Creativity ACROSTIC, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Amiable you should be ever Last Line: Safely follow this advice Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ACT THREE, by JOYCE STEIN Poem Source First Line: No one can remember Last Line: Death is the new director Subject(s): Life; Memory ACTS OF GOD, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby brother's suddenly Subject(s): Life ACTUARIAL FILE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orange peels, burned letters, the car lights shining on the grass, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AD ASTRA: 100, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We doubt of life-for who can hope to stand Last Line: Heeds he the many vigils of our way? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Past AD ASTRA: 102, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our minds are finite-can we measure his? Last Line: Worlds yet undreamt of may go wheeling by! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 103, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The thousand questions that come surging in Last Line: That all life's beauty is for ever fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Survival AD ASTRA: 104, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And where at last must all our questions end? Last Line: The mysteries which in our lives abound? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life AD ASTRA: 113, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thus every sorrow hides a central joy Last Line: A finer insight into all that is. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life AD ASTRA: 121, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O who can view such scenes indifferently? Last Line: The realm of earth, the commonwealth of air. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Tyranny & Tyrants AD ASTRA: 123, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Bewilder'd 'mid the clash and the recoil Last Line: Since he who would subsist must live by strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life AD ASTRA: 142, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Seek not the unsanction'd joy, the illicit quest Last Line: Remorse shall ask no questions of thy dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Passion; Joy; Delight AD ASTRA: 143, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For, if there be no heaven nor hell-but here Last Line: —man true to man, and earth were heaven indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; World; Paradise AD ASTRA: 148, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Two roads present themselves to every man Last Line: And soul or body now must meet the blade! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology AD ASTRA: 150, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The infinite conceit,' another cries Last Line: A whirling mote splay'd from life's glittering wheel!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Life AD ASTRA: 160, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: God gave us of his own immortal soul Last Line: And born to live for ever in his sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life AD ASTRA: 166, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet even in this little world of ours Last Line: One single hour to share the life divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life AD ASTRA: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O gentle love! Sooth whisperer to mankind Last Line: Cradling the great deeps of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AD ASTRA: 36, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In love's great heights and depths thou canst not Last Line: In one all-perfect joy, too soon to expire! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Love - Complaints AD ASTRA: 59, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I will away, into the light of day! Last Line: The brighter for the clouds that hung so near. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life AD ASTRA: 72, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And some there be-poor, self-deluded souls! Last Line: May find it break them with an iron rod! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Soul AD ASTRA: 86, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Are not our lives girt round with mysteries Last Line: And shall it not the least of life control? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Faith; Life; Belief; Creed AD SE IPSUM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, good-morrow! Five years back Last Line: Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Life; Trials ADDISON COUNTY, VERMONT, CLAY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north vermonter who would fain Last Line: In travelling over first-class clay. Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips ADDRESS SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one dread night our city saw, and sighed Last Line: Still may we please -- long, long may you preside! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ADDRESS TO HIS NATIVE VALE, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy calm joys with what delight I dream Last Line: They strip thy shades, -- thy shades so dear to me! Subject(s): Country Life ADDRESS TO THE MUMMY AT BELZONI'S EXHIBITION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) Last Line: The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): To A Mummy;to The Alabaster Sarcophagus, Deposited In The British Museum Subject(s): Life; Mummies ADEQUACY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the verdure on thy thousand hills Last Line: Only to make me worthier of the least. Subject(s): England' Conduct Of Life ADJUNCT, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tomato plant is like a seven-story city hewn from the rock of the desert Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ADJUSTMENT OF FEVER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the images of saints hanged Last Line: And the visit begins, to help me to live right Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Parents; Travel ADMIRE NOT, SHEPHERD'S BOY, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life ADMISSIONS AGAINST INTEREST, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Taking my time, literal as I seemed, crazy Last Line: But sell it cheaply to survive Subject(s): Arab Americans; City & Town Life ADON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not weep for adon! Last Line: This dumb white corpse of adon. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Life ADVENT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's advent, and the woods renounce %your name Last Line: To kick the days ahead %and lets them burn Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland ADVICE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must do as you do? Your way I own Last Line: But I trust we shall meet -- in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Flowers; Friendship; Life; Roses ADVICE TO A CITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O city, cage your poets! Hem them in Last Line: The savage, sweet, unpalatable truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day. Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wish to leave unseen Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry & Poets ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wish to leave unseen Last Line: Ice black on the green shoots %the taut chain Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry And Poets AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar AFRAID OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid of the countryside Last Line: The countryside is a pale dream in a fever Subject(s): Farm Life AFTER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the littles that remain! Last Line: Oh, the scent of mint was plain! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AFTER A CITY WINTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill tops are forms of silence Last Line: And the blue curve of a wing. Subject(s): Cities; Winter; Urban Life AFTER A LONG PAUSE AND THOUGHTS OF FOREVER, REGULARS AT VERA'S SCAT..., by ALISON PELEGRIN Poem Source First Line: There's none of us living lives we haven't made ourselves Last Line: She settles in her falling bed of stars Subject(s): Life; Stars AFTER A NOVEMBER TYPHOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Our warden is the south sea, gloomy, threatening Last Line: And rising, like a delirious mandarin duck Subject(s): Family Life - China; Typhoons AFTER ARGUING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Lavender snow, night tilts beyond Last Line: All the wings I've hidden in the lake Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives AFTER DEATH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know just what may hap, when I go Last Line: Is just that simple little creed, to climb the golden stairs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! This delights me more than Last Line: How I do pity them that pity me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones AFTER DEATH, LIKE FLOWS TO LIKE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I often think of them Last Line: Or say their names %when we begin Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life AFTER DROUGHT, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now come the quiet days of cloud Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life AFTER FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The katydids and crickets had Last Line: The judgment day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER HAYDN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speeding around in a little car Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AFTER HURRICANE HUGO, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm picking up wood from the lawn Last Line: Where we slept Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER MANY A GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After many a summer flies the swan Last Line: Is still trying Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER MIDNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark streets are deserted, Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Bedtime AFTER MIDNIGHT, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is at morning, twilight they expire Last Line: Who has been born this evening in the house. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime AFTER SICKNESS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The night my fever breaks Last Line: Nearer the bursting yellow fruit %than the thorns. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America AFTER THE BALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little maid climbed upon an old man's knee Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life AFTER THE FIRE, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to think of huff waking up Last Line: Someone else had been there %once, making sense Subject(s): Fire; Life AFTER THE FUNERAL, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: My aunt and I are drinking coffee Last Line: Who've travelled enough distance %to let them Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers AFTER THE HAINAN LEGEND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: A hainan youth, the unrivaled hunter among the villagers Last Line: And somersaulting and glimmering around the winter sun Subject(s): Family Life - China AFTER THE LAST BREATH (J.H. 1813-1904), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped Last Line: Outshapes but small. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The AFTER THE NEWSCAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life AFTER THE STORM, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Renewed by morning air now pouring in Last Line: Clean arc from birth door to the grave Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Life; Storms AFTER THEATER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Into the exit-ways the winter air Last Line: And here the place where dreams and dramas live. Subject(s): Modern Life; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life AFTER THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRASSAI, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whore moves a basin of green antiseptic water Last Line: It falls stiff like a drunk, like a drunk falling onto a whore. Subject(s): Brassai [gyula Halsz] (1899-1984); Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels AFTER THUNDER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Storm, thunder no more Last Line: Nor blossoms without rain Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality AFTER WINTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He snuggles his fingers Last Line: "runnin' space . . . " Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism AFTER WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when thou seest that my work is done Last Line: Will I come. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology AFTER-GLOW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: Playthings agian on my kitchen floor Subject(s): Farm Life AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness AFTERLIFE, by J. V. BRUMMELS Poem Source First Line: For you, eternity begins well Last Line: And the insistent rumor %of a better place on the far side Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: It ought to be a long nap out of doors Last Line: Parallel, together, an equal sign Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE IN ELYSIUM, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For them the sun shines at full strength - while we here walk in night Last Line: Vomit forth a boundless gloom Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Last Line: Agree with him. Without dobut they were Subject(s): Future Life AFTERMATH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She: / it was my life, the dream -- so real to me Last Line: "life lies ahead! I am awake ... And free!" Subject(s): Life AFTERNOON, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouse, my girl in gray, I speak to her Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AFTERNOON, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouse, my girl in gray, I speak to her Subject(s): Family Life AFTERNOON IN A CHURCH, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown tired of routine work Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry AFTERNOON OF THE SWIMMING PARTY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: A tidal wave, two old guys Last Line: Glitter without clothes Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AFTERWARDS, by DANIEL SIMBO Poem Source First Line: August deep, %a thin line of grief swarms around the wild cherry Last Line: Only then are you among the living Subject(s): Indifference; Life AFTERWHILES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they - the afterwhiles Last Line: Out into the afterwhiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Life; Past; Sun AGAIN THE TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tree was chosen by the boy and dog Last Line: Its lights are hope. Even the sad heart lifts! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AGAINST INFECTION AND THE HAND OF WAR, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life AGAINST PLURALISM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives AGAINST THE GATE OF LIFE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: As mute against the gate of life you sit Last Line: A miracle to men! Subject(s): Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Memory; Destiny AGE, by CAROL HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: And I am older, having you in me Last Line: The place %where %again %darkness %is %light Subject(s): Aging; Life; Night AGENDA AT 74, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tap barometer, burn trash Last Line: Tap the fucking barometer... Subject(s): Activity; Life; Old Age; Exercise AGING ON TWO DIFFERENT COASTS, by C. B. FOLLETT Poem Source First Line: Uncle is a vessel nearly empty Last Line: And we don't tell either %about the other Subject(s): Aging; Family Life AGRICULTURAL CUSTOMS IN 1800; LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farmer at the plough Last Line: Son threshing in the barn, %all happy to a charm Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURAL CUSTOMS IN 1900; LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Father gone to see the show Last Line: All the boys learning latin, %with a mortgage on the farm Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sunday morning - service done Last Line: "that's hagricultural distress!" Subject(s): Farm Life; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AGRICULTURE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You've planted seven wealthy husbands Last Line: A profit-making farm Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURE: A POEM, SELS., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape AH, THESE MYSTERIES OF LIFE, by CHARLES L. GROVE Poem Source First Line: There are some mysteries of life for which I do not care a fig Last Line: How come the critics simply yawn, and call my efforts trash Subject(s): Life AIN'T IT AWFUL, MABEL?, by JOHN EDWARD HAZZARD Poem Text First Line: It worries me to beat the band Last Line: Ain't it awful, mabel? Subject(s): Life; Women AIR, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Come diktynna come -- %once more the mourning dove Last Line: My love could not retrieve %your evanescent breath Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality AIR AN' LIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Look an' zee how widely free Last Line: Do miss a zight he cannot show. Subject(s): Air; Life; Light; Morning AIR PASSAGE, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: God speed, silver bird Last Line: A spark of my own. Subject(s): Life AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors Last Line: Is rounded with sleep. Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves AKHENATEN, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I went there Last Line: As you disappeared from this life forever Subject(s): Death; Future Life AKIN, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The prairie, wide and desolate Subject(s): Farm Life AL AND BETH, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle al worked in a drugstore Subject(s): Immigrants; Patriotism; Family Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Relatives ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If the function of writing is to 'express the world.' my father withheld child Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Relatives ALBINO, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When virgil thought no shame the doric reed Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Country Life ALBUMANIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friendship, when I muse on Last Line: "he's lying, just the same!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Thought; Thinking ALCESTIS: ADMETUS TO THE DYING ALCESTIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No more for me the revelry and feasts Last Line: There I may live with you forever Subject(s): Future Life ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ALDERMAN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One year the town republicans Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALDERMAN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One year the town republicans Last Line: You need to learn your place. And pomp withdrew %because the klan was wrong: by god, he knew Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life ALETHLA ARISES FROM THE CORPSE OF FIDA'S HIND, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As that arabian bird (whom all admire) Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALGIERS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Gold-vestured suns and silver-fretted nights Last Line: Algiers!—inch' allah!—sleeping! Subject(s): Algiers; Cities; Urban Life ALIAS IRENE, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: She broke loose from her father's hand Last Line: Until it shone like a dinner plate Subject(s): Children; Family Life ALIBI, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: My father is lifting from the drawer Last Line: He said it wasn't all my fault Subject(s): Family Life ALICE IN THE HALLWAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've got a golden key, and hands Last Line: It's sugar on top for those flowerbeds Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES A LETTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Dear me - ! Last Line: I am no longer one of you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES HER MEMOIRS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Begin with taken, meaning; distance Last Line: Of all want, my fists tight in prayer Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE, FALLING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What edges the world has! Last Line: I'm beyond punishment Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALIEN CORN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Kneeling to see the world Last Line: Weevils from a cornskin rug. Help! Help! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Iowa; Native Americans ALL, by LEONA GOM Poem Source First Line: All he would have to say is Subject(s): Family Life ALL DAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning Last Line: Into the sea Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Thomas, Helen (1920-2013) ALL HOLLOWS' EVE, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be perfect, make it otherwise. Subject(s): Relationships; Life Choices ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALL MEN DREAM: BUT NOT EQUALLY, by THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE Poem Source Last Line: May act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible Subject(s): Life Change Events ALL MY LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Running the locomotive Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Nature; Self ALL SERENE, by NELLIE R. NESSELROADE Poem Source First Line: Clean hearth, a glowing fire, a sparkling Subject(s): Farm Life ALL SOULS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fa,ily Life; Life, Modern; Fall ALL SUMMER LONG, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs eat hoof slivers and lie under the porch. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALL THAT REALLY HAPPENS, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: My whole family has died Last Line: Owes more than it could possibly pay. %this owing is all that really happens Subject(s): Death; Family Life ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: And I am holding out my hands Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course Last Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ALL THESE ARE GIFTS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: No mortar juts out of it, %no body hair looks out at its ankles Subject(s): Family Life; Thought ALL THINGS STAND OUT AGAINST THE SKY, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Between queen tiy (consort of amenophis iii, who reigned 1417-1379 b.C.) Last Line: That's wasted on the young Subject(s): Winter; Conduct Of Life ALL THINGS TO NOTHINGNESS DESCEND, by WACE Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: In some clerk's book; it is the pen %gives immortality to men Subject(s): Life Change Events ALL THIS WAY FOR THE SHORT RIDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: After grand entry cavalcade of flags, Last Line: For grabs, a bride's bouquet %pitched blind. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ALL THOSE SPIN BUTCHERS DROOLING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bullet for television Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature ALL WE HAVE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You grew sunflowers and swept up magnolia leaves on the patio. Left me Last Line: To you on air. It's all we have Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry And Poets ALL'S WELL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The cat has her milk Last Line: All's well with his life. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALLEGORY OF DEATH AND NIGHT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he comes home from work Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who have best succeeded on the stage Last Line: To please an age more gallant than the last. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 6 Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ALMOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I had almost forgotten the smell of november Last Line: But I had almost forgotten Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALMOST A VOICE, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Listne as slowly as you can Last Line: Full of my uncle was, my mother was, %I was Subject(s): Family Life; Voices ALMOST AGAINST MY WILL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Once more I was %not prepared Last Line: Echoing through %my body's deepening canyons Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ALMOST AN ELEGY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have always lived in the shadows cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Change; Aging ALMOST AUBADE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little hours: two lovers herd upstairs Last Line: Lie in my arms until the kids get up Subject(s): Family Life ALMOST BEYOND ENDURANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't a-goin' to cry no more, no more! Last Line: I ist ain't goin' to cry no more, no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Tears; Relatives ALMOST ISAAC, by ANTHONY RUSSELL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Abraham raises his necessary knife and strikes Last Line: And the beauty that is isaac, %blooming in anatolia in may Subject(s): Abraham; Farm Life; Isaac (bible) ALMOST, NEVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says one thing -- she says everything else Last Line: Knotted with cries Subject(s): Birds; Change; Discontent; Life; Dissatisfaction ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It twists my heart to walk alone Last Line: Now pull my heart strings like a tether Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She stitched the remnants of her life Last Line: And wondered why she'd never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALONE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O what a bitter word alone! Last Line: No earthly cares can o'er us hover Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ALONE INTO THE MOUNTAIN, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day from that deep well of life within Last Line: Save by a poor lost sheep with thorn-torn fleece %that follows on and hears him talk with god Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry ALONE WITH JANE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Jane, in a suit of cameron plaid Last Line: I wish I were n't alone with jane! Subject(s): Courtship; Daughters; Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood ALPHABET FOR INSOMNIACS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep Last Line: Praise be! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City ALTERATION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought growing older Last Line: Of last night, even in sleep. Subject(s): Aging; Change; Life; Life Change Events ALTERNATIVE, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Immediates? Well we have birth and sickness and death Last Line: There is virtue, too, in a gray and dragonish sea. Subject(s): Life ALTHOUGH I HAVE STOLEN HIS GOLDEN GIRL, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: The subject of his earthy joke is me Subject(s): Farm Life ALTHOUGH WE LIE UNDER ONE ROOF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Singing, joining the scraps of her wedding dress Subject(s): Farm Life ALWAYS MISTAKEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see the ocean and hear Last Line: In heaven, a table set with bowls %of rice and cups of tea Subject(s): Greece; Life; Sea; Self ALWAYS UNSUITABLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore little teeth of pearls around her neck. Subject(s): Sex; Conduct Of Life ALWAYS; TO MADAME FAURE-FAVIER, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poet's Biography First Line: Always / we'll go further without ever advancing Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AMARILLO PEACE RANCH, 1991, by MARY ELLEN MCANALLY Poem Source First Line: Bill sky starts the fire with a feather Last Line: Balanced between her earth dance and her sky dance, %her eyes still a fire Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: My friend has become like john lennon, only no one Last Line: Now fastened to the sun, has begun to drag his night light %across the vicious skies Subject(s): Family Life; Imagination AMBITION AND ART, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Last Line: That lives for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Eyes; Life; Love; Soul AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMEH JOON (AUNT DEAR), by SUSAN ATEFAT-PECKHAM Poem Source First Line: My one-breasted, crippled aunt wilts Last Line: The powerful, for pity, for pity Subject(s): Family Life AMERICA WAS PROMISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: America was promises Last Line: America kept its promises to you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AMERICAN FAMILY, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: At the grocery store I bought pumpkins Last Line: For the slut I guess, after all, I am Subject(s): Family Life; Pumpkins AMERICAN HERO, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: A reluctant war story Last Line: A long - long %time ago Subject(s): Ranch Life; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMERICAN RUBAIYAT, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: You've twenty years, or ten. Perhaps just five Last Line: Turn up the volume. Floor it. Drive, man, drive! Subject(s): Life AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports AMINTA, SELS., by TORQUATO TASSO Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Italian Renaissance AMNESIA, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: My memory fails me Last Line: While children in prison %had their first communion %dressedin street clothes, %with no bows or sash Subject(s): Human Rights; Life AMONG HIS EFFECTS WE FOUND A PHOTOGRAPH, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: My mother is beautiful as a flapper Subject(s): Family Life AMONG SHOOTIN' STARS, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Sold bronc saddle %foreclosed cows Last Line: Sweet smell mist, let it take its course %for my heart is two, because of you Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AMONG THE PITFALLS IN OUR WAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AMORETTI: 4, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AMPHITRYON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking (and it almost makes me mad) Last Line: To get young godlings; and, so, mend our breed. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nymphs; Women AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts. Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life AN ABIDING CITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city walls are builded sure Last Line: Pass in a dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; God; Walls; Urban Life AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: You want to follow in my steps? Last Line: To play othello: 'tis my benefit. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Professions; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN ALBUM FAMILY, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A good-time charlie from the start, my father Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AN ANCIENT CHESS KING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haply some rajah first in the ages gone Last Line: And murmurs of the dark majestic town. Subject(s): Chess; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN APPEARANCE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of iceboxes annihilates me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN ARTIST'S APOSTROPHE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Too often they linger apart Last Line: Shall faint, fade, and perish. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Fate; Life; Truth; Destiny AN EARLY AFTER LIFE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN EARLY PIONEER, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: Against the soft, dark velvet of this case Last Line: That spread from nineveh to now! Subject(s): Farm Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers AN EMBLEM OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN PLEASURE; TO THE GRASSHOPPER, by SAMUEL SAY Poem Text First Line: Little insect! That on high Last Line: But the winter long remains. Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life; Time AN EMERITUS ADDRESSES THE SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one can wish nothing Subject(s): Life AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen your city Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity." Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race AN EVENING OUT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered into chekhov Last Line: Velvety and dark / finally falling Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self AN EXPLANATION, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah! 'splain to me de reason Last Line: Oh! ...!— Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Towns; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AN EYE OF A QUEEN AND A TESTICLE OF A BULL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We each one wear moccasins & a strip of deerskin Last Line: Loving an enchantment of islands Subject(s): Country Life; Friends, Religious Society Of; Hunting; Property; Quakers; Hunters; Possessions AN IDEALIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I left him very ill Last Line: He fares farther on. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Idealism; Life; Soul; Dead, The AN IDYLL OF DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On western plains, where shade is not Last Line: The atmosphere of dandaloo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing; Towns AN INCIDENT, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A simple thing, yet chancing as it did Last Line: I would not soar like thee, in loneliness to pine! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Flight; Life; Flying AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are not near enough to love Last Line: And truth reveal herself to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Brothers; Deception; Family Life; Wealth; Half-brothers; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes AN INVALID'S PLEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O summer! My beautiful beautiful summer! Last Line: Where never a rose of the roses shall die! Subject(s): Life; Summer AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees AN INVITE TO ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, wilt thou go with me sweet maid Last Line: We are wed to one eternity. Subject(s): Consolation; Courtship; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the refinement of this polished age Last Line: And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life AN ODE (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At mary's tomb, (sad sacred place! Last Line: And thou sustain'st the orb below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Heaven; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ODE, SELECTION, by RICHARD FANSHAWE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Only the island which we sow Last Line: "to be imbued." Subject(s): Country Life AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) AN OLD LIFE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow fell in the nght Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Relatives AN OLD ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days that were- no matter when Last Line: The road that leads not anywhere. Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Paths; Trails AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AN OLD WOMAN: 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, an old woman in the light of the sun Last Line: Forgive and bless all men like the holy light. Subject(s): Life; Old Age AN OPEN DOOR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That longed-for door stood open, and he passed Last Line: "I still am I,"" his eyes say, ""thou art thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man is singing on the bus Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Urban Life AN URBAN ECLOGUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: How favoured are we, phyllis Last Line: A million years ago! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ANACTORIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes Last Line: Thick darkness and the insuperable sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Life; Love - Nature Of ANAMESIS (A RECOLLECTION), by ROSALIND B. CHAIKIN Poem Source First Line: Concealed in the shadow of time past Last Line: Nothing, just played Subject(s): Family Life ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The traveller in a burning clime Last Line: And something of a mortal pang. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Celestial influences affect the earth, define the surface Last Line: Resting on a firm cloud of cotton Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Emotions; Life; Melancholy ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships ANAXAGORAS, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all our lives Last Line: Wherever %you start from Subject(s): Life ANCIENT BEAVERSLIDE, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Alone it stood, %all made of wood Last Line: Though broken backed %an ancient beaverslide Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life AND AFTER--WHAT?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Twas omar said--and it was strangely true-- Last Line: The shrouding blackness does not finish all? Variant Title(s): And After-what? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time AND NOW THE HOUSE-DOG STRETCHED ONCE MORE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Family Life; Relatives AND PIGS MAY FLY, by PARTRIDGE BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm boarding my flight home from the heartland Last Line: Door opens, whips out a playboy and begins reading Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Travel AND THERE THE ANGELS OF GOD WERE ASCENDING, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: In heaven, the children are harming one another Last Line: As afterimage, starlight, the air above [or, about] a shortened grave Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Future Life; Heaven AND THIS, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: And this is what my life is: hope without Last Line: I knew that nothing really was my own. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime AND TO BE BORN IS HERE AN UNNAMEABLE FEAST (TO LEZAMA LIMA), by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: You breathe by words ten thousand times a day Last Line: The verbal bird that flies from your tongue Subject(s): Life AND TO SEE THE CITY AGAIN AND TO SEE IT AGAIN, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life AND WAKE UP WHERE?, by DAVID LAZAR Poem Source First Line: A generation of mothers sings 'over the rainbow' in ruby bedroom slippers Last Line: Place like home, there was no place Subject(s): Family Life; Girls; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AND YOU, VANYA, by YURY ODARCHENKO Poem Source Last Line: Crying for its rooster Subject(s): Farm Life ANDRE, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream last night. I dreamed Last Line: They were the ones I always had! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives ANDRE, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream last night. I dreamed Last Line: They were the ones I always had! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life ANDREW RAN PAST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew ran past me yesterday Last Line: I know that life is good, hard - got Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANDY YOUNGBLOOD, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: When andy youngblood comes to the mill Subject(s): Farm Life ANGEL OF STRAYS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: At almost sixteen, my daughter %is noticing architecture. Last Line: Me up like a stray roaming too long without desire, %or warm milk, or a voice to ask for either. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ANGELA ASKS FOR MORE STORIES, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: It was the year of the babysitter. Mother had slid Last Line: She is a child, his voice a vine rustle as he holds her hand in his, %strokes the wet wool Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Time ANGER, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We can cut out nemesis's tongue Last Line: We wouldn't be much if thorns %didn't drive light into wet blooms Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Anger; Death; Life ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy ANIMA ANCEPS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Till death have broken Last Line: Under the earth. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The ANIMA URBIS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, city, by two rivers made an isle Last Line: Since I have so loved you -- do you love me? Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Urban Life ANIMAL CAUTION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore ANNIE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not for earthly bread, annie Last Line: To dwell in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Life; Love; Roses; Paradise ANNIE WEATHERBY, by BOB KAVEN Poem Source First Line: Father woke me. He claimed the house was burning Last Line: Like a quick, small engine. I told them to leave Subject(s): Family Life; Fire; Survival ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day approaches Last Line: And I must grieve Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The years slipped by as easily Last Line: With a shared look and the word unspoken Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANNIVERSARY OF A DROWNING, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: My father has dived %to the floor of the pond Last Line: His held breath %between words, %and my need to let go Subject(s): Family Life - India ANNUNCIATION, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like holes punched in a tin roof, thinks diverne Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ANNUNCIATION, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like holes punched in a tin roof, thinks diverne Last Line: For someone dead. Like abraham, that night %she saw her children: lord, they daddy white? Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life ANOTHER CHANGE AND WE'RE UPON, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: Upon the banks of lake champlain Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ANOTHER DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning still pitch-dark at seven, then light starts Last Line: The threads holding us together, everything in question Subject(s): Day; Life ANOTHER DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Lord, as the evening's curtains lower Last Line: And this the boon I ask. Subject(s): God; Life; Prayer ANOTHER DAY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleeting high that lifts you Last Line: Ball of twine, fractal of lost feathers Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is an I in space, I am, space Subject(s): Life ANOTHER FARM, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: Along this road another farm's Last Line: From this road to horizon's edge Subject(s): Farm Life ANOTHER LANDSCAPE, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Following the mississippi up the border of wisconsin we see Last Line: A distant plow scrapes at beauty so tomorrow the world can work Variant Title(s): Life Goes O Subject(s): Life; Mississippi ANOTHER LESSON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: During my teen years Last Line: I know a shortcut! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ANOTHER REAPER, by WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III Poem Text First Line: Go down,my son to the ploughing Last Line: When blood is on the plain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ANOTHER SPIRIT ADVANCES, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Text First Line: What is it so transforms the boulevard? Last Line: Space in communion binds us in one thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Spiritual Life ANOTHER YEAR, by A. M. WALTON Poem Source First Line: Another year the sun wil' shine at planting Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope ANOTHER YEAR, by VIOLET DARLINGTON WAY Poem Text First Line: Another year, I'll have some poppies there Last Line: Another year! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANSWER, by EDITH E. DE RIENZ Poem Text First Line: After the storm is over Last Line: A life was made for that! Subject(s): Life ANSWER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warmth of life is quenched with bitter frost Last Line: Deep in its house of clay. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Life ANSWER TO YES WE MISS THEE AT HOME?, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yes we miss thee at home yes we miss thee Last Line: Twixt home and the brave volunteer Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ANSWERING MAGISTRATE ZHANG, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Now late in life I love only stillness Last Line: You ask the pattern of failure and success? - %the fisherman's song reaches deep past the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life ANT LION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I bake in a crater Last Line: My larval urge to fly, %copulate and die Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees ANTARES, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: The earth has whirled its little men around the sun Last Line: Hot and blood red is the heart of him! Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; World ANTHEM, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: And in the morning I was riding Last Line: Those horsemen will ride all with me %and we'll be good, and we'll be free Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing! Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise ANTHROPOPHAGIA, by MARIA ELENA CABALLERO-ROBB Poem Source First Line: You will want an angel with a dirty face, scuffed Last Line: Of earthly cares, %into a new, holy life Subject(s): Angels; Life ANTICIPATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day in highest heaven, made fair and white Last Line: As I shall be that day. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANTIGONE: WOMEN, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then she brought more dust Last Line: She has never learned to yield Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ANTILAMENTATION, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret ANTIQUE SHOP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an attic air about the place Last Line: The shrewd horse - trader gleam that's in her eye! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: French bread, raspberry soda, figs, blue cheese, chocolate Last Line: A wrap dress and planting pansies, when I could at least temporarily be %queen of egypt Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Life; Love ANY CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life ANY MOMENT, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: What could I possibly say that buddha or jesus Last Line: Moves at this moment in your blood Subject(s): Life ANY QUESTIONS?, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who wound the clock that set the galaxies in Last Line: Questions seek the unknown Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANY WIFE, by ALBERTINE H. MILLER Poem Text First Line: It is the small familiar things that hurt Last Line: So faulty and so human, but so dear. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sun moon stars rain Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): 50 Poems: 2 Subject(s): Life; Seasons; Time APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by KATHERINE R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies Last Line: To go back home again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life APATHY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking, you sag. Fatigue is different: the body, like steps Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature APHRODITE'S IDENTITY CRISIS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Love is greek to me now Last Line: Sending static each to each? Subject(s): Computers; Courtship; Life, Modern; Social Protest APOCRYPHA, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Life APOLOGIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These bitter stammered rhymes Last Line: To belong to the infinite stream. Subject(s): Children; Earth; Life; Rhyme; Childhood; World APOLOGY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I have taken your boots Subject(s): Mothers; Conduct Of Life APOSTASY, FAILED, by LESLIE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Wet air and the wet edge of my body meet Last Line: So much that I denied, denied %denied loving them, all my life Subject(s): Absence; Life; Love APOTHEOSIS OF GENERAL COUNT DEITRICH VON HULSEN-HAESLER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Kaiser wilhelm and the general staff Last Line: To bury the count in uniform Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality APPARITION, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts; Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives APPARITIONS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On christmas eve, the 42nd street station Subject(s): Life APPEAL, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My bark is on the bounding billow Last Line: If only just once in a while Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever! Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scorn the heavenly plains above me Last Line: Beside my wife in statu quo! Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Paradise APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast a maiden fair, so good and kindly Last Line: A little glacier seem'd to be thy heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Hearts; Life; Inspiration; Creativity APPETITE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I eat these Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest APPLE TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smell of winter apples in a bin Last Line: The red heartwood burned with a steady flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth APRIL AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April again, / the funeral month, heaping Last Line: Under my feet Subject(s): April; Farm Life; Spring APRIL CONVERSATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She pressed the seed in the april ground Last Line: Who put the life in the little brown seed? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL FOOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'll always be an april kind of fool Last Line: The world is young. A fool in april knows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL FOOLS' DAY, MORGAN HALL, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, THE, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: I've risen. I've fed the faithful dogs and noisy parrots Last Line: The world weeps at the ordinary failure of love Variant Title(s): April Fool's Day, Morgan Hal Subject(s): Life; Love APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers ARCADES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look nymphs, and shepherds look Last Line: All arcadia hath not seen. Subject(s): Country Life ARCADIA, SELS., by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sels Subject(s): Country Life ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have his Last Line: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. Variant Title(s): "song;phlox - Agreement;heart Exchange;ditty;friendship;arcadian Dialogue;sonnet;true Love;""my True Love Hath My Hart, And I Have His""; Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love ARCHEOLOGIES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder about all the thoughts Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ARDUIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rhasis %young master ion, what is this Last Line: Men should not toil too much; there's madness in it Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Egypt; Immortality; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights ARIEL AND CALIBAN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So - prospero is gone - and I am free Last Line: "I dreamed and fancied. He awoke and saw!" Subject(s): Islands; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Prisons & Prisoners; Supernatural; Dramatists; Convicts ARMAZINDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Armazindy;-- fambily name Last Line: Though I'm 'lectioneerin' still. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Names; Relatives ARMED FOR WAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Is life on earth a viler thing Last Line: To rub a sleepy eye? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events ARMED MEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray teaches at the boley baptist school Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ARMED MEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray teaches at the boley baptist school Last Line: To let them go out and run %through the twilit streets of boley, %where each window holds a loaded g Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life ARMISTICE DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds stayed not their singing Last Line: A deeper breath than passion knew. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps. Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY DIET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My father says 'at sojers is Last Line: "the sojers eats the tax, 'I jing!" Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMY LIFE: VETS, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Five years later I met a former grunt Last Line: Didn't feel expelled from the human race Subject(s): Army Life ARMY WAGONS; A BALLAD, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wagons went by rumbling Last Line: When the sky grows shadowed and rains pour down, %you hear their voices wailing Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life ARRANGEMENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a manuever that doesn't start in silence Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ARRHYTHMIA, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't exercise my heart but watched Last Line: A beat every blessed second of my life Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Life; Track Athletics ARRHYTHMIA, by AMANDA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Brown street signs mean change Last Line: Are you still alive out there? Subject(s): Cities; Family Life ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ARRIVED, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life has overtaken me and here I am Last Line: But life has followed and I find it good. Subject(s): Life ARRIVING IN THE COUNTRY AGAIN, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white house is silent. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Country Life ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I started on a lonely road Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails ARS POETICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: After four years %of teaching our checks Last Line: Nods its head %in praise of poetry Subject(s): Family Life - India ARTEMON AND THE FATES, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't all that long ago he skulked about Last Line: Himself with a dowager's ivory parasol? Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Life Change Events ARTIST'S LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the waltzes the great strauss wrote Last Line: I am always finding -- you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians ARVIRAGUS AND PHILICA, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sickly actors & an old house too Last Line: You'd less good breeding or had more good nature. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life AS A DECADENT PASSES, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Bid the dawn come; the moonlight is too pale Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Life; Moon; Sunrise; Parting AS BY FIRE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning Last Line: Our places are assigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Passion; War AS BY THE DEAD WE LOVE TO SIT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To our penurious eyes! Subject(s): Life AS CHILDREN TOGETHER, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sloped snow Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives AS HE WALKED WITH US, by HARRY WEBB FARRINGTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm, strong and gentle mand of galilee Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry AS HOUR AND YEAR COLLAPSED, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: We were a whole army underground Last Line: Has never been what we are Variant Title(s): We Were A Whole Army Undergroun Subject(s): Army Life AS I GROW OLD A SWEETER NOTE, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life AS IF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prayerful humanity of bach Last Line: To make a whole of it Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violence; Contradictions; Life AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From that poor prospect turned his face away Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life AS IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pay attention, talk to no one unless Last Line: Flying. All of it meaning the same thing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AS LIFE WHAT IS SO SWEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He would not reave them of their happy breath Subject(s): Life AS SLEEP IS, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: As sleep is to a day Last Line: A tune—and then, to smile. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love; Love - Nature Of; Sleep AS SOON AS SHE IS UP, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Grandma is up %and %out side Last Line: Cook %up %for %us %all Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life AS THE CENTER OF THINGS, by KEN FONTENOT Poem Source First Line: I was with gary on the champs elysees Last Line: And to know how life picks up from there Subject(s): Life; Travel AS THE SHADES OF TWILIGHT GATHER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: A nation's blood shall cease to flow Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War AS TRULY AS GOD IS OUR FATHER, SO TRULY IS GOD OUR MOTHER, by JULIAN OF NORWICH Poem Source Last Line: Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For love Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Worship AS YE SOW SO SHALL YE REAP, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: And you have reapt just what you've sown Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio AS YOU GO THROUGH LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't look for the flaws as you go through life Last Line: As water shapes into a vessel. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life ASCENDANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Journey up the faraway river where ferns bend Last Line: Fleshy finned bodies, the filament of gills Subject(s): Soul; Spiritual Life; Travel ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASCENSION OF A CITY FOG, by FRANCES COFFIN BOAZ Poem Text First Line: The avaricious sun dripped no gold Last Line: In the ascension of a shimmering, city fog... Subject(s): Cities; Fog; Urban Life; Haze ASCENSION: 1925, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Step on it, said aunt alice, for god's sake Subject(s): Family Life ASH, by STAN SANVEL RUBIN Poem Source First Line: So the self begins in dirt and ends in ash Last Line: Like a hat lost in a storm Subject(s): Life; Soul ASH HOLLOW: I., by R. F. MCEWEN Poem Source First Line: We didn't see outright. The springtime fell Last Line: Your heart. And with your eyes still, open wide Subject(s): Ash Trees; Family Life; Spring; Trees ASH WEDNESDAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Dust to dust says the priest Last Line: At your mother's breast Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ASK ME NOT, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ask me not why tis I love thee Last Line: Around the sun? - it could not be Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ASLEEP AND AWAKE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep and awake, I awake Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ASPECTS OF ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ASPHALT AND CHROMIUM GLORY, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: Go, build your sky-scrapers higher and higher Last Line: Beauty shall drape the mildewed bone. Subject(s): Cities; Heaven; Life; Sky; Urban Life; Paradise ASPHODEL (AFTER THE WORDS OF PENNY TURNER NYMPHAION GREECE), by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Our guide turned in her saddle broke the spell Last Line: Like honey-but with hints of rotting meet %an army of them bristled at my feet Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Fame; Life; Mythology - Classical ASPIRATION, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We climb the slopes of life with throbbing heart Last Line: Within us ever stirs. Can we repine? Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life ASPIRATIONS OF A COUNTRY LAD, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, were I but a city boy Last Line: It is not life to live. Subject(s): Country Life ASPIRATIONS TO THE INFINITE; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ne'er felt a feeling deep arise Last Line: Star-throned in your heart such utterance to inspire! Subject(s): Future Life; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ASPIRATIONS: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee in the streets, so wan and pale Last Line: For, through the racking fire, she winged her upward flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like jove's great eagle, who on giant wings Last Line: Swallowed and lost my life in vast whirlpools of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 11, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms rain upon the lea Last Line: And thou standest in thy height. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of moods and changes manifold Last Line: Soul, like a star, wilt thou pursue thy way? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each word that falleth from thy lips Last Line: And buds and blossoms forth in song. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 3, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping, weary, did I wander Last Line: See the vaulting skies appear. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres ASPIRATIONS: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid a golden cloud Last Line: In hushed and reverential prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is like a fragile flower Last Line: And overbrims in tears of joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight ASPIRATIONS: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the echoes, clear and light Last Line: To steep their being in the infinite skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 8, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is hushed and holy Last Line: That twilight soul of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 9, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in the summer night Last Line: O'er me dazzling doth it roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASTROPHEL'S SONG OF PHILLIDA AND CORYDON, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair in a morn, (o fairest morn!) Last Line: And sunday shall be holiday. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses AT 63, by PETER DESY Poem Source First Line: After a nap, say Last Line: There's no time for that, %not anymore Subject(s): Death; Future Life AT 78, by ROBERT OTTMAN Poem Source First Line: Books shelter me Last Line: I am waiting to be born Subject(s): Family Life; History AT A BURIAL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of all light and darkness Last Line: Lord of all life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Burials; Theology AT A COWBOY DANCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Git yer little sage hens ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States AT A POTATO DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mechanical digger wrecks the drill Last Line: Then, stretched out on the faithless ground, spill %libations of cold tea, scattered crusts Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes AT AN IOWA CITY BAR, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The way %he sits talking about zen Last Line: Almost makes me believe %in the mystic orient Subject(s): Family Life - India AT AUNTY'S HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time, when we'z at aunty's house Last Line: When we et on the porch! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aunts; Cherry Trees; Country Life AT BAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desperate, at last I stand Last Line: But to greet you hand or fist. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Fights; Life; Destiny AT BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise AT CANDLE TIME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Last night at candle lightning time there Subject(s): Farm Life AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When she died he married her sister Last Line: And a ghost Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural AT EIGHTY YEARS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: At eighty years the sun of life hangs low Last Line: Then death to hallow all, at eighty years. Subject(s): Death; Life; Old Age; Dead, The AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT HIS WINTRY TENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only master of his art was he Last Line: "old friend, good night -- for there is no good-by." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Friendship; Life; Tents; Dead, The AT HOME IN WINTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sit across from one another Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AT HUSKING TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At husking time the tassel fades Last Line: At husking time. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AT LAST, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: At last - at last the heavy cloud Last Line: Again has risen our star Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio AT LAST TO BE IDENTIFIED!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Between our feet, and day! Subject(s): Time; Life AT LAST WE KILLED THE ROACHES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All over the place Subject(s): Family Life; Poverty; Cockroaches AT LENGTH, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grounded, I watched late-breaking spring take off Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AT LENNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By lake como's sylvan shore Last Line: I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Life; Roman Empire; Nightmares AT LONG LAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained Last Line: Is never paid in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AT MIDNIGHT OR SO, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The train whistles past my window Last Line: Or malice, what do you %make of this? And of this? Subject(s): Life; Railroads AT MIDSUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spacious noon enfolds me with its peace Last Line: Then day, and year, and life whirl on toward death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Life; Summer AT NIGHT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dust are my father's beautiful hands Subject(s): Family Life AT NIGHTFALL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AT NIGHTFALL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Last Line: Wobblings, desires, where I -- she seems quite sure of it --belong Subject(s): Farm Life AT PINAFORE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ruffles and lace and furbelows Last Line: Little girls have grown up, and the days are long Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT SAGAPONACK, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: There are rhythms to life and language Last Line: Of anything, thinking %this is thinking Subject(s): Language; Life; Poetry And Poets AT SEVENTY-THREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, let us face things as they are Last Line: For I am over seventy-three! Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Mankind; Tears; Youth; Relatives; Human Race AT THE BRANDING, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Years ago %women were never allowed Last Line: She leaves the corral %the knife folded in her pocket Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers AT THE DARK BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At the dark banquet, who shall be fed? Last Line: The importunate living? The accusing dead? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AT THE ENTRANCE TO AN UNDERGROUND, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: Stairs of glass on the solar platform Last Line: In the open they wave torn flags Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Immigrants; Travel AT THE FUNERAL, by LORRAINE MOZEE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: She bends in awkward agony Subject(s): Farm Life AT THE FUNERAL OF GREAT-AUNT MARY, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, all dressed up to honor death! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AT THE FUNERAL OF GREAT-AUNT MARY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, all dressed up to honor death! Subject(s): Family Life AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE GRAVE OF BILLY THE KID, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I stopped at the grave of billy the kid Last Line: Last night, in sante fe, the bright moon, full %and round as the circle that moves the world Subject(s): Bonney, William ("billy The Kid"); Ranch Life AT THE GRAVE OF MY BROTHER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mirror cared less and less at the last Subject(s): Family Life AT THE GRAVE OF ONE FORGOTTEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a churchyard old and still Last Line: Life is worth. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE IGA: FRANKLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is where I would shop Last Line: Never enough in the bank Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean AT THE MEETING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: At the meeting %they said they wanted to send Last Line: And my motion lost because I forgot %I couldn't be a boy Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness AT THE MOVIES, by ROBERT FUNGE Poem Source First Line: If life were a movie Last Line: The credits %rolling %and all we'd hear is the music Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters AT THE PLAY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in a theatre the amused sense Last Line: Death takes the lights, and we go home to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise AT THE PLAY, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: I weep at the play Last Line: Yet I weep at the play. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life AT THE SALVATION ARMY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My life. My life. Subject(s): Salvation Army; Conduct Of Life AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AT THE STOCKMAN BAR, WHERE THE MEN FALL IN LOVE, & THE WOMEN JUST FALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: Black velvet shots and water back Last Line: I'll never find my way again Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Women; Women - Writers AT THE SUPERMARKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fields in a basket, glowing and green Last Line: Weighed in a scale by the measured pound! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE TABLE FOR NO REASON, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hummingbird is christmas, red throat Last Line: I leave to get on with coming back Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Hummingbirds AT THE THRESHOLD, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be pleased if the wind that enters the orchard Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At the top of the ladder %half wild cats Last Line: It a place to whisper Subject(s): Country Life AT THE TOP OF THE ROAD, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, lord,' she said, 'my shoulders still are strong -- ' Last Line: "lord of the land, but men have named me death." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The path we loved is quite deserted Subject(s): Farm Life AT THE VERY MOMENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: No matter what you know Last Line: It will break in your hands Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life AT TIMES LIKE THIS, by DAVID G. LOTT Poem Source Last Line: And know that that bird in the mist %is returning to the sun Subject(s): Life Change Events AT WINTER SOLSTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dream, dream slow dreams Last Line: And darkness melting like a drift of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ATHEISM: FAITH, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of doubt - faith is the subtle chain Last Line: That questions of thy faith, the cold external doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Atheism; Doubt; Faith; Life; Skepticism; Belief; Creed ATLANTIC GRAIN, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Men shall eat bread herefrom Subject(s): Country Life ATOLL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woes of men beyond my ken Last Line: The plenitude of peace Subject(s): Peace; Quiet Life ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark figures, wild and surly Last Line: And thy hour will sound to-morrow! Subject(s): Hate; Life; Nature ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three-and-thirty aged women Last Line: "must in actual life first die!" Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cavern, by his young ones Last Line: Rights of man that he is born to. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The AUBADE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the street the sound Last Line: Up and down the street the sound Subject(s): City & Town Life AUBADE, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is little else Last Line: Does, & make us day? Subject(s): Life; Love AUBADE, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is little else Last Line: Or rise, as sun %does, & make us day? Subject(s): Life; Love AUBADE IN SPRING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: At night the cows sleep on the hill Last Line: The cows walk in for milking Subject(s): Farm Life AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUCTIONEER'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUGURY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse-shoe nailed, for luck, upon a mast Last Line: Then fold it down forever on his breast. Subject(s): Life AUGUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead is the air, and still! Last Line: Beauty, thus rethroned, accepts and blesses her children Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): August; Beauty; Life AUGUST IN THE CITY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon. Last Line: Where the glad, fresh rain beats!) Subject(s): August; Cities; Urban Life AUGUST THIRD, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: We are so near the music Last Line: And be free! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Music & Musicians; Soul; Nightmares AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the war when rationing was over Last Line: Slide out babies like payday from that %billion dollar behind Subject(s): African Americans - History; Death; Family Life; Hunger; Slavery; War AUNT ANNIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She was death on germs and spiders Last Line: But she listened when I talked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUNT ANNIE'S PRAYER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her magnified voice reverberates Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AUNT ANNIE'S PRAYER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her magnified voice reverberates Last Line: Praise god. %thank you, jesus. %amen. %amen Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life AUNT DOROTHY'S LECTURE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, go and practise - get your work Last Line: If he'll come in to tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Advice AUNT DYMPNA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She had blue hair, a kerry blue dog Last Line: Not even the name of the next cat Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AUNT ELSIE'S NIGHT MUSIC, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life AUNT JULIA, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt julia spoke gaelic %very loud and very fast Last Line: With so many questions %unanswered Subject(s): Farm Life AUNT LIZZIE IN WHO'S WHO, by E. BRIGHTWEN Poem Source First Line: Name and title: aunt lizzie. A lover of Subject(s): Country Life AUNT MELISSA, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had perfect pitch Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Family Life AUNT SELINA, by CAROL HAYNES Poem Text First Line: When aunt selina comes to tea Last Line: I hope she would not come again! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives AUNT SUE'S STORIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt sue has a head full of stories Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives AUNT SUE'S STORIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt sue has a head full of stories Last Line: Of a summer night %listening to aunt sue's stories Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life AURA, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My aura is different from a hundred %others, the psychic tells me. Not smooth Last Line: And not that I want all this gold for myself, %this signal, this brief news of good. %not that I wan Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our author by experience finds it true Last Line: And see us play the tragedy of wit. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shame; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life AURORA, JULY WOODS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Little town of trillium and hay Last Line: The long breath of design Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Mothers; Prairies AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the ghetto streets where a jewboy Last Line: Delighting in the sobbed oriental note. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Jews; Relatives; Judaism AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am leading a quiet life Subject(s): Self; Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the cathedral of burgos Subject(s): Human Rights; Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RUSSELL LORD Poem Source First Line: Bugles, angrily blown and shrill Subject(s): Farm Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All clocks are clouds. Subject(s): Life; Self AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY), by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The book of company which Subject(s): Life; Relationships; Time AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps AUTOCHTHON, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rude country some four thousand miles Last Line: O leader in a commonwealth of thought! Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Judgments; Life; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses AUTOMATIC PILOT, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The night of his death, I feared the body's stupid continuance Last Line: In which there are no parents, nor children Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Parents AUTUMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Golden and warm the summer rivers ran Last Line: To last them through the season of the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time of thinned and reddened leaves Last Line: When autumn wanes in dark dismantled glades. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Autumn like a tired man is sitting down to Subject(s): Farm Life AUTUMN FIELDS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said his legs were stiff and sore Last Line: And the land where he had been Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons AUTUMN IN THE PARK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the baring bough Last Line: Raking up leaves. Subject(s): Country Life AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AUTUMN LEAVES, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: The fall has come, the trembling leaves Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life AUTUMN OF LIFE, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: As leaves fall from trees Last Line: To seek for the infinite. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Life; Life Change Events; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AUTUMN SERENADE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the tears of autumn shed Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares AUTUMN WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Last Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn gales are blowing Last Line: I'd breathe my life away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Nature; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays Last Line: And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AVENUE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life AVON VALLEY, by WILLIAM COBBETT Poem Source First Line: In steering across the down, I came to a Subject(s): Country Life AVRIL, by REMY BELLEAU Poem Source First Line: Avril, l'honneur et des bois Subject(s): Country Life AWAKENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Soul! We have been too petty, thou and I Last Line: And live the pulsing life that god designed. Subject(s): Life AWAKENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just when the day seemed drab Last Line: And a gleaming gem of sand Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC - SET, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not for him that sips Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life AWAY! (1), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day's enamour'd of the night Last Line: Away from me and sorrow! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness AWAY! (2), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If by one woman thou'rt jilted, love Last Line: Not much in the world below thee. Subject(s): Life; Love; Women AYE THERE IT IS! IT WAKES TONIGHT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Storms; Life AZRAEL'S CALL, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: That, which seemed so far away Last Line: Then throws back his head, to take me in Subject(s): Business; Family Life; Spring; Telephones AZTECS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We have all had our hearts torn Last Line: Beneath the unyielding sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life BABUSHKA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her hair tied in a knot Last Line: Is land enough for me.' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BACCHUS, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The blood of full grapes swells my wooden goblet Last Line: Before the barred door of eternity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Grapes; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BACK IN THE MOUNTAINS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I'll take down the old clock Subject(s): Farm Life BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BACK TO MAKE THE BEARS SICK, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I saw a big trashy Last Line: Bony children back %to make the bears sick Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Rudeness BACK TO THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll buy a little farm somewhere,' the old Last Line: They turn their eyes to the old home farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Old Age; Retirement; Weariness; Agriculture; Farmers; Fatigue BACK TO THE LAND!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Acres out of cultivation! Last Line: Peace in her imperial eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Urban Life; British Empire; England - Empire BACKSIDES OF HOUSES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Backsides of houses don't pretend Last Line: And sandboxes bulge with buried treasure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BACKYARD SWING SET, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splayed, swayback, cheap pipe Subject(s): Home; Family Life; Relatives BAD DAY, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not every day / is a good day Subject(s): Life BAD GUYS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We live the same: our way Last Line: Of our eyes for %any %bad guys Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness BAD MANAGER, by MARY SEWELL Poem Source First Line: Oh, fanny! My dear, what a beautiful pie! Last Line: To learn how you manage so well Subject(s): Family Life BAD MEDICINE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Under a rising gibbous moon Last Line: Of the lovelorn loon Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BAD PRINCES PILL THEIR PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like those infernall deities which eate Last Line: And leave their subjects but the starved ware. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BAD WORD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The next door neighbor has bought one of those above-ground pools Last Line: For the back yard; it is what he wants his love to mean Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Grief; Love; Neighbors BADLANDS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: We want to take visitors to see grass Last Line: Dry crotch in a sea of grass Subject(s): Grass; Ranch Life BAGATELLES: CHELSEA, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And life is like a pipe Last Line: And life's as well out too! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Life; Love BAKING DAY, by ROSEMARY JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: Thursday was baking day in our house Last Line: And rolling pastry, her untutored intelligence %all bent to wards nourishing her children Subject(s): Family Life BALANCE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watch her like a coonhound watch a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives BALANCE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watch her like a coonhound watch a tree. Last Line: That hoe diverne think she marse tyler's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form BALI HAI CALLS MAMA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was putting away the groceries Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives BALLAD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain of the moorish hold Last Line: The noblest knight of spain! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Moors (people); Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLAD OF AUNT GENEVA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geneva was the wild one Last Line: And gave away her heart Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Racism BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLAD OF RUNNING HORSE RIVER; SENDING OFF THE ARMY, by TS'EN SHEN Poem Source First Line: Have you not seen Last Line: At the western gate of ju-shi we %await news of the victory Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life BALLAD OF THE LADY QUID PRO QUO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the coasts of consternation Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Likes & Dislikes; Conduct Of Life BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And children with deep eyes grow up and stray Last Line: Like heavy honey from the honeycomb. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And deep-eyed children cannot long be children Last Line: Like heavy honey out of hollow combs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE PRIMROSE WAY, by ROSE EDITH MILLS Poem Text First Line: Life, through the arc of a century Last Line: Earth's olympus is primrose way. Subject(s): Life; Primroses; Youth BALLAD OF THE TANNERY WITCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Jim backman wed the black haired maid Last Line: The stump was raw and red! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology BALLADE OF A DORMOUSE, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: No matter how you cut it Last Line: Eat, drink, and take a nap Subject(s): Life BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY; TO C.H. ARKCOLL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them boast of arabia, oppressed Last Line: With the smell of bog-myrtle and peat! Subject(s): Arabia; Cities; Patriotism; Urban Life BALLADE OF LIFE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, fair maids, maying Last Line: "they are dead and gone!" Subject(s): Life BALLADE OF RUNNING AWAY WITH LIFE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ships upon the sea, o shapes of air Last Line: O how I long to run away with life! Subject(s): Life BALLADE OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wishful to add to my mental power Last Line: The best you get is an even break. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) BALLADE OF THE BRAVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prate not to me of weaklings, who Last Line: This is the ballade of the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Life; Soul; Valor; Bravery BALLADE OF THE DEVIL-MAY-CARE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Free as the wandering pike am I Last Line: "life is too short to be ""dead in love!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Life; Love BALLADE OF THE STRANGE WORD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: These warm spring days Last Line: "but ""apricate." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Life; Youth; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE OF WENCHES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peddle indulgences, as you may Last Line: Taverns and wenches, every whit. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BALLADE: 14, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That time that mirth did steer my ship Last Line: And should be while that life doth dure. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hate; Life; Nature; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My dear, the word thou spakest Last Line: Alas, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Optimism BALLADE: 38, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet, alas, forget me not Last Line: Forget me not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Life; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes BALLADE: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She that should most, perceiveth least Last Line: Whether I came too hastily or too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Life BALLADE: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though some do grudge to see me joy Last Line: As I deserve, so let me have. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Life; Joy; Delight BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: THE QUEEN AND THE KING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My master dear, my king, dost thou know how much they love, my Last Line: Weathercocks where the wind pipes all day! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE LAMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All in the woodland green, sombrely dight, wandered a king and Last Line: "mundane. . . ." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Lament; Love; Night; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space Last Line: Begins. Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs BALLS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw the blue balls above the twigs of the tree-tops Subject(s): Balls; Conduct Of Life BANKING POTATOES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy would drop purple-veined vines Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Potatoes; Relatives BANKING POTATOES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy would drop purple-veined vines Last Line: & by mid-winter we had tunneled %back into the tomb of straw%unable to divide love from hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Potatoes BANKING UP VERMONT HOUSES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house without a suller wall Last Line: They know you've finished banking up. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dine on the dictionary Last Line: For daily fare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BAOBAB FRUIT PICKING (OR DEVELOPMENT IN MONKEY BAY), by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've fought before, but this is worse than rape! Last Line: At them baobab fruit picking. 'my house was right %here!' whoever dares check these balamanja dreame Subject(s): Farm Life BAPTISM OF CHRIST, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a green spot in the wilderness Last Line: Circled, and flutter'd to the saviour's breast. Subject(s): Baptism; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Christenings BAR-Z ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, by PERCIVAL COMBES Poem Text First Line: We ain't no saints on the bar-z ranch Last Line: What ain't no saints, as I said. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States BARBARA AT THE WINDOW, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close at the window-pane barbara stands Last Line: Whatever you see, and wherever you go! Subject(s): Children; Family Life BARBED WIRE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It aint no easy way / to find the endpiece of wore Last Line: Won't never get this damn fence done Subject(s): City & Town Life - Utah; Farm Life; Inventions & Inventors; Agriculture; Farmers BARDO, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent my life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BARE HANDS, by ALICE G. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A lad with eager, anxious eyes Last Line: To pay for a place to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BARGAIN HUNT, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you found a bargain so incredible Subject(s): Life BARN CAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The barn cat always greets you at the stable door Last Line: That a lady is a lady, no matter where she lives Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BARN CATS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's funny, the things you remember Last Line: Is really better than barn cats %and cow-cured headaches Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BARN FIRE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts, somehow, in the hot damp Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BARN FIRE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts, somehow, in the hot damp Last Line: Because they know they are safe there, %the horses run back into the barn Subject(s): Farm Life BARN-YARD, by SHEILA CUSSONS Poem Source First Line: The pigsty did not reek Last Line: O lost barn-yard, in you I could find the whole old testament %and the greek legends and andersen Subject(s): Farm Life BASIC PROBLEM, by AMANDA PECOR Poem Source First Line: I doubt that there's a final judgment Last Line: Or at least to the farthest possible extenuation of time Subject(s): Judgment Day; Life BASIC SCIENCE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One cadaver said to the other Subject(s): Life BAT SHLOMO, by HAROLD SCHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: The great epic Last Line: The pace of the daily press, %we'll gorge ourselves and dwindle Subject(s): Farm Life BATTLE AT THE RIVER RAISIN; JANUARY 22, 1813, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gleam and thunder, from afar Last Line: Shall swell your lasting fame. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Soldiers; War; Belief; Creed BATTLE CRY OF TEMPERANCE; AIR: 'RALLY ROUND THE FLAG', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: We will rally now for temperance Last Line: Shouting the battle cry of temperance Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio BAYARD TAYLOR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Can one so strong in hope, so rich in bloom Last Line: With aims as pure strive faithful to the end. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Dead, The; Parting BBC, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here is the news, and someone is reading it Last Line: Here is grump's grievance, and grump himself growling it. Subject(s): British Broadcasting Company; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; B.b.c.; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: A quiet tennessee childhood Last Line: Would you pay that price for fame? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BE GLAD AND SING, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you a band of little ones Last Line: To him who doeth all things best. Subject(s): Blessings; Family Life; Home; Relatives BE GONE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Walk %or if you must Last Line: So good-bye and god speed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BE NOBODY'S DARLING / BE AN OUTCAST, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among your dead Subject(s): Self-reliance; Conduct Of Life BE-ALL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The insect clings Last Line: Will become belong. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Longing; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise BEACH AT FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, SUMMER, 1952, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: All the way from boston to the cape my daughters cry Last Line: To settle for being when those we loved are gone Subject(s): Family Life; Vacation BEACON LIGHT, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Whenever I come on kelp-stained nets Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BEAN FIELDS, by MARGARET HASSE Poem Source First Line: They labor along the straight lines of their Last Line: Opening here, closing there Subject(s): Beans; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor And Laborers BEANS AND FRANKS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When newberry's closed Subject(s): Novelty Stores; Store Closings; City & Town Life BEARS AT RASPBERRY TIME, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear. Three bears Last Line: Except poems about bears? Subject(s): Life BEAUTIES ECLIPSED, by FRANCIS LENTON Poem Text First Line: Ladies who gild the glittering moon Last Line: Since charles and mary lost their beams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BEAUTIFUL CITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BEAUTIFUL CORN, by PEARL BARRETT HOY Poem Text First Line: You talk of beautiful corn Last Line: How can you know? Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Plantation Life BEAUTIFUL UNKNOWN, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: In a moonlit room sitting alone Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BEAUTY, by JESSAMINE S. FISHBACK Poem Text First Line: Blue haze of autumn etching scrolls against the skies Last Line: Though all that dies, I know, shall live again. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEAUTY AND THE BIRD, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fluted with her mouth as when one sips Last Line: Of inner voices praise her golden head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bullfinches; Country Life BEAUTY OF LIFE, by MARY MILES COLVIN Poem Text First Line: Beauty of life has been given to me Last Line: "thank god for the beauty I've found today." Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love BEAUTY TREATMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The meadow is dowdy in its faded brown Last Line: Is a delicate powdering of snow! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BECAUSE I AM HEIR TO MANY THINGS, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Warmth of dandelion, shamble of bear Last Line: Wishing for love in a preposterous season Subject(s): Life; Nature BECAUSE I COULD NOT GO HOME FOR MY AUNT'S FUNERAL, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because my mother's parents were immigrants Last Line: She coasts down the hill, poised, a surfer riding the big wave Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Immigrants BECAUSE THAT YOU ARE GOING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our confiscated gods Variant Title(s): Poem: 1260; Poem: 131 Subject(s): Life; Mourning BEDLAM REVISITED, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody told me anythng much. I was born Last Line: Later they changed the number and we moved away Subject(s): Family Life BEDROCK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though I endure the shore Last Line: Came of hardship %wandering the mountains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Nature; Relationships BEDROLL, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's a hole in the wagonsheet big as my head Last Line: My bed's on the top of the pile Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BEDTIME READING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the sun falls into the sea Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age; Mythology BEE PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here there is pasture for the sun struck bees Last Line: Spread thickly on his crusty home baked bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEEF EATER, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I have been eating beef hearts Last Line: As if he were a fly %paced %deliberately %away Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BEET FARMER, by MARK MIRICH Poem Text First Line: It is not weariness that lines this face Last Line: And tear a quiet courage all apart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BEFORE A STATUE OF BUDDHA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O buddha, of the mystic smile Last Line: Atones for earthly pain. Subject(s): Buddhism; Life; Love; Soul; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists BEFORE DAWN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life, if life were stronger Last Line: But all have found him fair. Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Soul; Sunrise BEFORE DAWN; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate Last Line: Bringing about results none could have guessed. Subject(s): Life BEFORE I KNOCKED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knocked and flesh let enter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BEFORE I WAS HUNGRY, by WALTER LANE Poem Source First Line: Before I was poor Last Line: Rights of %fishermen, %farmers Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Poverty BEFORE ME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I sometimes think Last Line: Has lived this %life before me Subject(s): Life; Relationships BEFORE THE DELUGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am tired of the rain Last Line: Forgive me if I, too, hesitate and wonder Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEFORE THE FALL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am no perseus come to swing a blade Last Line: The rib restored, androgynous as hell Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BEFORE THE SOUL'S TRIBUNAL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The champion of a lawless crew Last Line: And o'er my being reign! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Life; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect BEFORE THE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees are wringing their anxious hands Last Line: Before the great sky river flows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEGGAR WITH THOSE EYES, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Once a week Last Line: Only his eyes struck me as strange-- %they were orange %and made a noise when they closed Subject(s): Human Rights; Life BEGINNERS LUCK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: With the sun in my eyes Last Line: When I could not see Subject(s): Country Life BEGINNING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You stand alone in the empty street Last Line: You will make each journey many times. Subject(s): Life Change Events BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the old frequented ways Last Line: On the city's strife and din. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BEING BUT MEN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being but men, we walked into the trees Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from court, where after toil we get Last Line: Vanquish'd, I triumph; fighting, peace I find. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Retirement; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BELLS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest sabbath bells! Blest sabbath bells! Last Line: "in guilt and gloom!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bells; Life BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods BELOVED, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In a reflective mood this morning Last Line: Connected with the divine source Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BELOW ZERO, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight hour was coming on Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight. Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The BEND-A-FAMILY', by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arrives attached to their own living room Last Line: Hey, I say, loosen up Subject(s): Imagination; Life; Play BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Fearfully gazing spirit! Wherefore lies Last Line: Shrouding the brightness of thine angel form. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Future Life; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BENEATH THE SHADOW OF THE FREEWAY, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the street -- the freeway Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BENEATH THE SHADOW OF THE FREEWAY, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the street -- the freeway Last Line: And trust only what I have built %with my own hands Subject(s): Family Life BENEDICTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing Last Line: Blest. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BENEFACTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou the lives of men wouldst bless Last Line: For him who treads it after thee. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness BENIGNANT DEATH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanking god for life and light Last Line: If we could not die! Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tangible a form in history Last Line: And victory -- as ever -- with the right. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901); Heroism; Life; Monuments; Heroes; Heroines BEREAVEMENT ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've left my fingertips on fence posts Last Line: On a shelf, lips in a jar Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BERG, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Channels of happening as theyrun deep and deeper Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BERKELEY, FEBRUARY 11, 1998: THE HYPOTHETICAL LIFE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: After a week of rain, the sky Last Line: Jokes in the wavering %mind of the rainy garden Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Life BERRY ME NOT, by JEANE RHODES Poem Source First Line: Chokecherries, chokecherries, purple and round Last Line: The man that I live with is still with the living Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BESIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Living beside the mountain all my life Last Line: The mountain still will bulk against the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks said: never to be born is best Last Line: But the greeks were wrong: to live and love is best. Subject(s): Greece; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Greeks BEST, TO THE BEST, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows where it listeth Last Line: But life is best, to the best. Subject(s): Life BETTER, by MIMMO IASIELLO Poem Source First Line: Now that I think of it, it was better Last Line: And protect, but most of all, a promise %to survive, to survive Subject(s): Family Life BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BETWEEN EACH SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once would have said my sister vida but now Last Line: Think we should get it off or get off it Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing And Singers BETWEEN STORMS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son at five breathes straight into my face Last Line: And all I want is a little calm, moments of happiness %between the storms Subject(s): Quiet Life BETWEEN THE GATES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the gates of birth and death Last Line: "are ministers of love." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The BETWEEN THE QUAY OF SAN NICOLAS AND THE SEA, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: There's a little sun still, the cables creak Last Line: Forgive me, forgive her Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life BEWARE OF THE WIND, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the wind when it talks to your heart Last Line: And says such things as none should say. Subject(s): Life; Prudence; Wind; Caution BEWITCHED, by HAMLEN HUNT Poem Text First Line: Now that the trap you laid Last Line: No more of life. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers BEYOND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must not doubt, or fear, or dread Last Line: And that which makes this life so sweet shall render heaven's joy complete. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; Paradise BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He looked at his children, all nine Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks. Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love BEYOND OUR BREATHING, by CAROL RULOFSON Poem Text First Line: Across the threshold of our garden path Last Line: That peace which is the earnest of god's will. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND RECALL, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when death and I Last Line: As life -- and you -- have proved to me! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BEYOND THE STARS I SEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gaze into thy heavens, lord Last Line: The christ of calvary. Subject(s): Cavalry; Future Life; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BIBLE STORIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was low and small and kind Last Line: The little jesus supped with me. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BIG APPLE WEEKEND, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Sealed windows %facing canyons of cement and stone Last Line: Appreciated now, even more %in comparison Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BIG MAC WHOPPER, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Take a hundred acres, as a sample Last Line: Doubles every few years - %invitation to plague? Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life BIG MEN, by WINFIELD S. HIIGEL Poem Text First Line: Red acres in travail call us now Last Line: And the call is for big men! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BIG MIND, by JOHN DONLAN Poem Source First Line: A fingernail catches on the cracked glaze Last Line: Your life an engine for generating life Subject(s): Life; Reason BIG MOMENTS, by ETHEL VEVA KING Poem Text First Line: We live in little things through all our days Last Line: When big intensive moments come whereby we measure life. Subject(s): Life; Surprise; Time BIG ROCK-CANDY MOUNTAIN, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land was theirs after we were the land's Last Line: Out of a rifled and abandoned land Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads BIG SISTER AND BIG BROTHER, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: Ziza plays her guitar Last Line: His running shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life BIG SISTER TELLS ME THAT I'M BLACK, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: That we are proud %we shout out loud Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life BILL EVANS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The night he went too deep with a needle Last Line: Beat, this body and its hollows, pulsing Subject(s): Life; Music And Musicians BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the leaves, they're long and curling Last Line: And the brevity of bean. Subject(s): Beans; Food & Eating; Oregon; Plantation Life; Trees BIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone wheel that sharpens the blade that mows the grain, Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BIRD TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuthatch and titmouse and purple finch Last Line: Blossom here while tulips sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRD-LOVING DON, by R. H. COON Poem Source First Line: W. H. Hudson once said of warde fowler Subject(s): Country Life BIRDING, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Some pursue quantity, a lifelist Last Line: With their brilliant golds, %the crimsons you covet Subject(s): Life; Nature BIRDS NEST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Birds nest Last Line: And men think I'm nothing Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Men; Mothers BIRDS NEST IN MY ARMS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights BIRDS OF A FEATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Swirl of black in the back yard Last Line: Around blue shoulders of the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRDWATCHING AT FAN LAKE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: Our blue boat drifts Last Line: Full of hearts that beat quick and strong Subject(s): Family Life; History BIRKHILL: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er thy lone beauty, sweet birkhill Last Line: "but faith and hope say, ""not for ever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives BIRTH, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fields of wonder Last Line: To make %some word %to tell Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Life Change Events BIRTH, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: In the steel room Subject(s): Family Life BIRTH OF A NATIVE TEXAN, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: I'm here to say I'm texican from my hat down to my boot Last Line: I'd have to say with no delay, there ain't no place like texas! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BIRTHDAY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BIRTHDAY LINES FOR OCTOBER'S CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October's the month of frost and flame Last Line: I'm glad that you were born! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY POEM, by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I am elsewhere Last Line: Summer is a gift I don't want to open Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life; Poetry And Poets BIRTHDAY SONG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now that you're one, going on two Last Line: Now that you're one, going on two! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY VERSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You have fulfilled my dreams for you Last Line: The years have blessed you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHMARK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Is god only %a drop of honey on the tongue? Last Line: As you were being born? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life BITCH, by SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH YESENIN Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: In the morning the bitch whelped Last Line: Trickled down into the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Yesenin, Sergei Subject(s): Farm Life BITING INSECTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying Last Line: Will know that now it is you being accepted back into the family of mortals Subject(s): Farm Life BITTER END, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A moonlit league to larboard Last Line: And suck them to their graves Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BITTER END, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Bird, if you start now Last Line: To make yellow happen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BITTER-SWEET, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence that fragrant name of thine Last Line: And our lips uplift a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Life BITTERCREEK WOMEN, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Bittercreek has always been Last Line: Instead of half %alone Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BITTERSWEET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: O bittersweet is the taste of life Last Line: Hold on to the hurrying years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Last Line: And death is our shepherd %and we die as the animals die Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BLACK LADY MARE, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There's a colt that's following my black lady mare Last Line: Well, just when I'm thinking I figured her out %that old biddy kicked me again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLACK PARENT TO CHILD, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: Your world's wide open Last Line: The world's wide open, child; %walk right in Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life BLACK PIONEERS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, we'll put the chickens Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BLACK PIONEERS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, we'll put the chickens Last Line: And buy you a fine cook-stove. %but, baby, first, let's try the bed... %(censored: they're making lo Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares BLACK TUESDAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A time to cut losses Last Line: Are hammered to crosses. %nothing less suffices Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLACKBERRY LIGHT: (BLACKBERRY LIGHT), by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man wenzel, try to forget the yellow manure Last Line: From branched world to central cocoon, %their frail and perishable home Subject(s): Farm Life BLACKMWORE MAIDENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The primrose in the sheade do blow Last Line: "in blackmwore by the stour." Subject(s): Women; Country Life BLACKROCK PASS, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: A thunderstorm began to form Last Line: And I'll wager these successful men %would like to return as much as I Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In battailes what disasters fall Last Line: The king he beares the blame of all. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BLAME THE REWARD OF PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among disasters that discention brings Last Line: If ill, then kings, not souldiers beare the blame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BLANDEUR, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If it please god Subject(s): Quiet Life BLASTING FROM HEAVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Life BLASTING ROCKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cutting corn is late Last Line: And squandered forty plunks. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BLEAK HOUSE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunks in the courtyard, dung and driftwood Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BLEAKE'S HOUSE IN BLACKMWORE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John bleake he had a bit o' ground Last Line: To merry bleake o' blackmwore. Subject(s): Country Life BLESSING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: May your eyes see beauty Last Line: Your kind heart %as I do Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BLESSINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the little orchard brown Last Line: Many a night and morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; Farm Life; God; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers BLIGHTED HOPES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: We met - o it was long ago Last Line: Out beaming radiant hope of heaven? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio BLIGHTED TREE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Spare that sucker at the root,' Last Line: Outside tessie's shuttered house Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLIND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Gunners a decade dead Last Line: And our eyes trained on the sky Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is a sorry thing Last Line: God bless her! -- help him! -- save us all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Friendship; Life; Love; Visually Handicapped BLIND, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He might be changing the tire on the pickup Last Line: It lives through the night Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Life; Tragedy BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology BLINDING THE INFIDEL, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A week after you came home Last Line: Into the fence and darkness Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLIZZARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is a day for knitting mittens Last Line: And school is as far as the milky way! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood on the night soil man en route to the country prison Last Line: Bronze dead gold & diamond deep. Blood be fast Subject(s): Blood; Social Commentary; City & Town Life BLOOD RELATIVES, by MICHELLE BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Because my mother is coming to visit Last Line: In sun, half darkened by shade Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens And Gardening BLOOD RHYTHMS - BLOOD CURRENTS - BLACK N' BLUE STYLIN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragrant breezes in the south Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Conduct Of Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty BLOOM AND BLIGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scene is desolate and bleak Last Line: To which our sunshine is like shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Aging; Life; Youth BLUE AMBITION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She'd start novenas, %when you went off to barter Last Line: Granda, standing in your dream Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BLUE BOWL, by LYNN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Everything is in the blue bowl which is empty Last Line: Things able to hold, be held by other things Subject(s): Bowls; Life BLUE COLLAR, by TONY GLOEGGLER Poem Source First Line: He never showed me how to get down, stay Last Line: A hand through my hair, went upstairs to bed Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Labor And Laborers BLUE CORN, BLACK MESA, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Before you go, I need to tell you Last Line: No one knows why this story is true Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Hopi Indians; Human Rights; Native Americans BLUE EYES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It would have been better for us both Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BLUE FARM HOUSE, CA. 1846, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: At least six cats called; dogs barked by every tree Last Line: Now he smells his own rude smell Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Relationships BLUE FILLY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: She is just three Last Line: And prepare ourselves for the saddling Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLUE OCTAVO HAIKU, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fat armchairs sat Subject(s): Life Choices BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES THE SISTERS DRAMA, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next to their death the sisters drama come Last Line: Who chops their heads off with his ruthless blade. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BLUEBERRIES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Driving north, the haze Last Line: In the blue cups of our hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross- Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers BLUES, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lazy, the laziest Last Line: Or open arms saying, I forgive you, all Subject(s): Indolence; Sleep; Conduct Of Life BOATING-SONG, by ALBERT M. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is fair when the eyes are bright Last Line: Then merrily heave, ye ho! Subject(s): Boats; Death; Life; Dead, The BOB IN HIS VALLEY, by MARIA TERRONE Poem Source First Line: After twenty years in vermont Last Line: Unable to account for imbalance, %the fleeting weight it bore Subject(s): Life; Nature; Vermont BOB'S LANE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women he liked, did shovel-bearded bob Last Line: And gloom, the name alone survives, bob's lane Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life BODHIDHARMA RETURNING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I once carried a world on my back Last Line: Toward the thin filament %of sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life BODY OF MAGNESIA, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: When the door between the worlds opened Last Line: It was joy, I was living in it, %I bled, I cried Subject(s): Death; Spiritual Life BODY POLITIC, by JULIE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: They sleep under the bright colors they quilted Last Line: Looking down on the clatter of cook and clean Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Family Life; Native Americans BODY, REASSEMBLED, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Traffic and people return to the marketplace Last Line: To wander the afterlife, slick in their tendons and skin Subject(s): Bodies; Bones; Future Life BOG MAGIC, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Granda cut turf with old gael grace Last Line: A wizard willing deadweights into fuel Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BOG PEOPLE, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In the gloomy afternoon, I look into their room and see them nap Last Line: Who says that we ever reached land Subject(s): Family Life BOGIE-WIFE, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: She hoists her thigh over back fences Last Line: Wears a fresh tee-shirt and attractive batik trousers Subject(s): Farm Life BOHUNK LOVE, by DEBORAH O'HARRA Poem Source First Line: We're coming off the grapevine careening Last Line: Alive with their terrible love Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Love; Politics BOIL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Boil over - it's what the nerves do Subject(s): Life BOIL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boil over - it's what the nerves do Last Line: Boil, it's what water %and everything else teaches Subject(s): Life BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night! Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BOOK LOVER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I would follow you anywhere, into the shelves Last Line: You were saving for a long rain. I'll be the spine %you open to the tender light. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love BOOK OF LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything very hardy Last Line: Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant Subject(s): Books; Life BOOK OF THE RISING FIELD, by ANDREW GRACE Poem Source First Line: Chapter 1: the planting Last Line: The arrowheads are cast aside' Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain Last Line: One does not need to credit death. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BOOK OF VISIONS: HENRY III, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The chairs and tables sleep. The tapestries are drawn. At times the Last Line: Saint-germain-l'auxerrois sonorous midnight beats. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BOOM!, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the vespasian-carlton, it's just one Last Line: Miss universe, for thy name's sake, amen Subject(s): Life, Modern; United States BOOT THEORY, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: A man walks into a bar and says Last Line: Your heart so big you can feel it kicking your lungs with every step Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life; Shoes BOOTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're foot - slog - slog - sloggin' over africa Last Line: An' there's no discharge in the war! Subject(s): Army Life; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; British Empire; England - Empire BOPPER: 4. ABACUS, by KARREN LALONDE ALENIER Poem Source First Line: In the last months he Last Line: His daughter %nothing Variant Title(s): Abacu Subject(s): Family Life BORDERS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village Last Line: Who is daddy now to %me Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness BORN IN THE AFTERNOON, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Against barbed wire an antelope Last Line: Antelope, too, are born in the afternoon Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, / I have wished you something Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events; Child Birth; Midwifery BORN YESTERDAY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tightly-folded bud, %I have wished you something Last Line: If that is what a skilled, %vigilant, flexible, %unemphasised, enthralled %catching of happiness is Subject(s): Birth; Life Change Events BORROWED THOUGHTS: 2. FROM 'PHANTASIES', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bitter thought, a snake Last Line: Lest it should hear me and awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain Last Line: Between us evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BORROWED THOUGHTS: 4. FROM ***, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the kingdom of my soul Last Line: The haunted chamber in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Past; Soul BOTANY BAY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was born and raised in covington Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Immigrants; Relatives BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Family Life BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without Last Line: That rise to madden me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look Last Line: The felon now for evermore!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood? Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were a mountaineer Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind! Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty BOUNTY HUNTER, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a black and white snapshot Last Line: Eyes wide with pain and fear Subject(s): Ranch Life BOVINE PREVARICATION, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: I have observed,' he stated Last Line: My conclusions? %cows lie! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BOWL, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world as a goldfish bowl remains Last Line: From the stilled glob of its own %clarified eye Subject(s): Bowls; Life BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life BOWS TO DROUTH, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driest summer, %the hose snakes under the mulch Last Line: At the base of an apple Subject(s): Farm Life BOX DINNER, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: He topped his breakfast sopping bread Last Line: But, all in all, surely by far the best bargain %was sealed when fair donner moved to the star cross Subject(s): Ranch Life BOY AND MOM AT THE NUTCRACKER BALLET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no talking in this movie Last Line: Do you have any more pistachios in your purse? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Play; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BOY AND THE BLUE-BIRD, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Where have you been Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BOY AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BOY IN AN OLD BROWN PHOTOGRAPH, by FREDRICK ZYDEK Poem Source First Line: The boy in the picture Last Line: That reads, 'fred at seventeen' Subject(s): Family Life; Photography And Photographers BRAIN CHILDREN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother brain, through tidal ebb and flow Last Line: Immutable as deity itself! Subject(s): Children; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BRANCH: 1. RELATIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This means even saint catherine of siena, who drank Last Line: Who died in childhood; maybe even the ghost Subject(s): Family Life BRANCH: 3. RELATIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the problem is we want to be a 'self,' a pure Last Line: In the deeps of the pacific: our cousins, contacting us Subject(s): Family Life; Self BRANCH: 5. RELATIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year, the kirkhill orphanage released his set of documents Last Line: Is the original endometrium. Even the haze and the lights Subject(s): Family Life BRANDING DAY, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: A reasonable beginning Last Line: Wearing pale blue pyjamas %with the fly wide open Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BRANDS, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Me an' slim was movin' heifers Last Line: I just run out o' air Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BREAD, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He knew what hunger a man can feel Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an ancient magic in the hands Last Line: Give us this day our daily bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAD & WATER, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: What good am I if I'm not a fish? Last Line: I am the kiss banging at your door %you are keys I have lost Subject(s): Life; Relationships BREAD AND WINE, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We said there'd be a celebration Last Line: With a withered hand Subject(s): Farm Life BREAD OF HATHERLEIGH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We made a pilgrimage to see the town Last Line: Was what we came to hatherleigh to find Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAKFAST IS MY BEST MEAL: OVERHEARD AT CARLSBAD, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breakfast is my best meal, and I reckon it's always been Last Line: But it fairly makes me sick! Breakfast is my best meal. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Family Life; Food & Eating; Cookery; Relatives BREAKFAST TIME AT THE EAST DELAWARE OUTLET AT LOWE'S CORNERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Switches click, gates open and water pushes through Last Line: They go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAKIN' EVEN, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: He might sit on the steps of an evenin' Last Line: Till the day his heart breaks even Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BREATH, by VERONICA SHANTZ PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Where from the clay pot a fountain of leaves erupts Last Line: They are not stirred by your breath Subject(s): Breath; Life BRIC-A-BRAC, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that sin is a seed that mildewed Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BRID, by JOHN E. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: On a rainy may afternoon Last Line: Who suffer themselves to watch with him Subject(s): Barberries; Death; Life BRIEF LIFE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brief as the creaming waves that break and run Last Line: And we are gone; yet the least life holds all. Subject(s): Life; Light BRIEF LIFE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are not long, the weeping and the laughter Last Line: Within a dream. Variant Title(s): Envoi;vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Mortality BRIEF MOMENT OF FATHERS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Finally in the dark quiet, in the arms Last Line: Wading in without you, to the edge %of his milky dreams. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love BRIGHT EYED GOOD BYES, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Birds %busily Last Line: Same as always %theyre gone Subject(s): Country Life BRIGHT HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These fields are not so poor as one might think Last Line: On these wide fields where beauty always grows! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) BRIGHT WAITING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Birds return early, hunger Last Line: You ribbon and tendril Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BRINGING DESIRE TO THE FIELDS, by AMY NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: The farmer makes love to his wife in the field Last Line: Of hours. On this and all the world's resources, %she lingers, lit up like a votive Subject(s): Farm Life; Sex BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: The jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROKEN DREAMS, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: I had love dreams and dreams of glory Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BROKEN GROUND, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opening out and out Last Line: What is left %is what is Subject(s): Farm Life BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States BRONISLAW, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Mother's borsht was steaming red Last Line: Bronislaw,' he answered Subject(s): Family Life; Immigrants; Poland BROOK LULLABY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sleep, the sound of singing water Last Line: Swinging over the singing brook Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives BROTHER, by MICHAEL DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Dropping a canape in my beaujolais Last Line: I must break bread with my own flesh and blood Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life BROTHER, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: You still carry Subject(s): Family Life BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time Last Line: I would be born a little sister there. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time""; Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms. Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives BROTHERS, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Through the livingroom window Last Line: And abracadabra %disappeared Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Memory BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a village built in a green rent Last Line: Might have been his. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements BROWN GIRL (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, father and mother, come yield to me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life BROWN'S DESCENT, OR, THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown lived at such a lofty farm Last Line: By road, a matter of several miles. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming BRR..., by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: When the telephone %stridently pierces the dark: Last Line: Did I love my mom enough? %whaddabout my pop?' Subject(s): Death; Family Life BUCK, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: The december my horse died, I did not Last Line: Lonesomed, hurt, and howling %not one holy word toward the bones. Subject(s): Farm Life BUCKEYE LUCKY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Talk about lucky %buckeye lucky Last Line: Lucky old buckeye %lucky old me Subject(s): Country Life BUCKING HORSE MOON, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A kiss for luck, then we'd let 'er buck Last Line: Beneath montana's blue roan %bucking horse moon Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: CACOPHONY FOR CLARINET, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the dairymaid Last Line: To play with her endless vacancy of mind! Subject(s): Farm Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: The gardener ties in childish posies. Subject(s): Country Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: EN FAMILLE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In early spring-time, after their tea Last Line: "as greenwich, or as bath, or joppa!" Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was not so much terror then Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Photography & Photographers; City & Town Life BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BUFFALO COMMONS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In antler, reeder, %ryder and streeter Last Line: Reclaimed by thistle %and buffalo grass Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BUGLE CALL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one cares less than I Last Line: The call that I heard and made words to early this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Morning; World War I BUILD SOIL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why tityrus! But you've forgotten me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BUILDING TODAY, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: I wish that as you walk along life's way Last Line: Oh, don't forget! You are building it today. Subject(s): Growth; Life BUILDING WATCH AT COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: As little sonnets labor to be wired Last Line: While hard-hats whistling dixie take a leak Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BULL GOD, by JOE SALERNO Poem Source First Line: The bull god moves from sunlight Last Line: Swaggering cock as tense %with seed as a milkweed pot about to burst %with the next touch of the win Subject(s): Farm Life BULL-ROARER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only saw my father's face in butchery Last Line: Locked up in that whirling stone, dear father Subject(s): Farm Life BULLHIDE CHAPS AND MEMORIES, by JIM SHELTON Poem Source First Line: Today I talked to madge Last Line: And we'll give back this piece of leather %and the bullhide chaps you wore Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BUMS AT BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily, the bums sat down to eat in our kitchen. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Family Life; Food & Eating; Morning; Relatives BUNCH GRASS, SELS., by ROBERT SUND Poem Source First Line: The ranchers are selling their wheat early this year, not holding over for Last Line: Are they doing? Subject(s): Harvest; Ranch Life BUNCH QUITTER, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: She is a proud half-brahma mama in the middle of a mindless herd Last Line: And far too unreliable %for trust Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life BURDENED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! There is no sadder fate in life Last Line: You are but a weak woman at the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Women; Destiny; Ocean BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIED CITIES; FATHER CHARLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No paler monk than father charles, and none so gaunt or lean Last Line: With thirty buried cities upon his reverend pate. Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Clergy; Death; Monks; Urban Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The BURIED LOVE, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: Now, though my love seem buried past recall Last Line: Wrapped in the garments of new life arise. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING THE FIELDS, by LINDA BIERDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the windless late sunlight of august, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BURRO, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Posing beside the huge rattlesnake head at the mexican pyramid are Last Line: All my family are dead Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Travel BURROWING OWL, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: How you came to die Last Line: Your death you call your own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BURSTING RAPTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the physician to complain, Last Line: Thats what a certain bomb was sent to be Subject(s): Farm Life; Atomic Bomb; Agriculture; Farmers BUSINESS AS USUAL, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Under the dining room light Last Line: Growing loud %in the last lovely light %of the moon, the moon, the moon Subject(s): Family Life BUT NEVER LIFE -, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There shall be many mornings after Last Line: Ceaseless . . . . Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BUT NOW THE JOURNEY IS OVER, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Gallantry and grace. %so farewell, farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT OF THIS I STILL FEEL CERTAIN, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tears that we see them pass from our individual experience Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT PLEASURES ARE LIKE POPPIES SPREAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or, like the rainbow's lovely form %evanishing amid the storm Subject(s): Life Change Events BUT TODAY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere the tree is growing Last Line: I live my hour. Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of; Togetherness BUTSUMA, by BERN MULVEY Poem Source First Line: Time to meet the relatives, only they're dead Last Line: She says to me, we will need your picture too, %just in case Subject(s): Death; Family Life BUTTER, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother loves butter more than I do Last Line: Out, one hundred megawatts of butter Subject(s): Butter; Family Life; Relatives BUTTER, by STEFANIE MARLIS Poem Source First Line: Go figure. The day lilies' yellow deepens gloriously Last Line: It may be years later that you learn enough and soften Subject(s): Butter; Life; Metaphor BUTTERANDEGGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a posture for two multiplied Last Line: Something else. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BUTTERFLY FARM, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A bit absurd perhaps - these exotica of steaming Last Line: The wholeness of them, the ephemeral %lesson of their lives Subject(s): Butterflies; Farm Life; Heaven; Insects BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom' Last Line: Fore the sun went down! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips BUTTON, BUTTON, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: Just ask the poet, life's a dumb thing Last Line: Life isn't much but, still, it's something Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons; Urban Life; Selling BUYING THE DOG, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's shy buck mcleish says Subject(s): Family Life BY CURE OF SULFA, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where, gathered, the wharves Last Line: Father, son & sardine sandwich / of gloucester! Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Family Life BY EARTH RESTORED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From grime and bitterness of city street Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BY FIRE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pass an abandoned, half-wrecked building Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The BY GONE DAYS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O by gone days! Sweet by gone days! Last Line: Longer upon this gloomy scene Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio BY HALVES, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are always half way there Last Line: On our way to such a communion Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BY LOCH ETIVE, by BRYAN GUINNESS Poem Source First Line: The flowers of the flags Last Line: The lake of my delight Subject(s): Life Change Events BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers BY SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I claim this lovely Last Line: These years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BY THE GREY GULF WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far to the northward there lies a land Last Line: And I wish I were back by the grey gulf-water. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Graves; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones BY THE OCEAN: ADELE CALABRO, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: I cannot sit still for these photographs Last Line: Between fear and delight about what I might do Subject(s): Colors; Life; Photography And Photographers BY THE PASSES, by LU LUN Poem Source First Line: The moon was black, the geese flew high Last Line: A blizzard covered our bows and swords Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life BY THE PASSES; A SONG, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: The turkish horn draws the north wind Last Line: North of the tents the sky must end, %flowing out from the passes the river's sound comes Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War BY THE PASSES; SONGS (2), by GUAN-XIU Poem Source First Line: Bones from battles are trampled to dust Last Line: Who will stand out before the son of heaven %and sing out this song of the border forts? Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erect in youthful grace and radiant Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry BY WHALE LIGHT, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I fancy I suppose a poem Last Line: Man, dig the knife in Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry And Poets BYZANTINE FACES, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I won't believe Subject(s): Life CAELICA (COMPLETE, 1-109), by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Cupid CAELICA: 75, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the time when herbs and flowers Last Line: Who travels constancy can tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Caelica And Philocell Subject(s): Country Life CALF, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: If it is being fattened for food Last Line: Have not been inspired to jump for joy in years Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life CALIDUS JUVENTA?, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are afraid that we have not lived Last Line: In a palsied age. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Life CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CALL HOME THE HEART FROM WANDERING, by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life CALLING TO THE RECLUSE, by LU JI Poem Source First Line: At daybreak I feel uneasy at my heart Last Line: If honor and wealth are hard to devise, %let me unhitch my team and do what I will Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life CALLING TO THE RECLUSE: 1, by ZUO SI Poem Source First Line: I leaned on my staff and called to the recluse Last Line: As I pace here, pausing, my feet grow weary - %I would cast down the pins of my officer's cap Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL'S DAY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Transience; City & Town Life; Memory; Impermanence CALMNESS OF THE SUBLIME, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Last Line: Which cannot be controll'd, whose end is good. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven Last Line: When camadeva came. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight CAMPAIGN SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: O-h-h, politics come with hue and cry Subject(s): Farm Life CAMPUS POET, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, %I've great pleasure in presenting myself Last Line: Whose not visiting has made my poetry prosperous %my tenure talked about Subject(s): Family Life - India CANADA: CASE HISTORY: 1945, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the case of a high-school land Subject(s): Canada; Youth; Modern Life; Canadians CANADIAN FOLK SONG, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doors are shut, the windows fast Last Line: Singeth the kettle merrily. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Variant Title(s): Margery Maketh The Tea Subject(s): Family Life; Canada CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CANNING TIME, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floor was muddy with the juice of peaches Subject(s): Family Life CANSO: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must there be in the continuum and whorl Last Line: Hone the incredible silence against their tongues Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Life; Mankind CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy Last Line: Get everlasting bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CANYON DE CHELLY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Love tarries another year Last Line: Weathering on the cliffs Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CANZONE: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought? Last Line: My life when it is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts; Life; Love CANZONE: ONES AND ZEROS, by PETER JACOBS Poem Source First Line: We've all gone made. Binary. In this virtual Last Line: And make us one when life flickers out to zero Subject(s): Life; Numbers CAPE COD - JULY 30, 1984, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The restless water sweeps the sand Last Line: Sandpipers and gulls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CAPPER KAPLINSKI AT THE NORTH SIDE CUE CLUB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's it like? You take it from me Last Line: We're playing or ain't we? Subject(s): Billiards; Life; Sports CAPRICE, by DEMIE GENAITIS Poem Text First Line: I climbed that hill while peering over Last Line: Ran down the hill and crept to bed. Subject(s): Climbing; Clover; Life CAPTAN OF THE BUTTERFLIES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: There is the captain of the butterflies Last Line: Reality is the greatest contagion Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Army Life; Fights; Soldiers CAPTIVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, kirkwood is a fine town, snugly nestled by the / hills Last Line: Holds me captive to the music of the multitude's great heart. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; City & Town Life CARBUNCLE, by MURIEL ZELLER Poem Source First Line: She saw the earth redd Last Line: And kept the mice numbered Subject(s): Farm Life CARD SHARKS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: They all sat around Last Line: If I deal the next hand?' Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Reunions; Uncles CARDINAL'S VIRTUE, by CAROL ANN MORROW Poem Source First Line: I bring you bold color Last Line: Life is far from black and white Subject(s): Colors; Life CAREER, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Jermiah saddlemire Subject(s): Farm Life CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree donated years back struggles Subject(s): Arabs; Israel (state); Life; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict CARMEN SYLVA, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even once have I looked on thy face Last Line: Because the earth and heaven in thee tryst keep. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother Last Line: Like our god's mother. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CARPE DIEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Ask not, leuconoe -- we cannot know Last Line: Place no faith in the future. Seize the day Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CARPENTER OF GALILEE, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Source Last Line: The carpenter needs more Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER, by CATHERINE HARNETT SHAW Poem Source First Line: Watched her father Subject(s): Family Life CARRYING A LADDER, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We are always / really carrying Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Ladders CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night) Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And hast thou sought thy heavenly home Last Line: Casa wappy! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life CASTLES AND DISTANCES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blackhearted water colder Subject(s): Walruses; Hunting; Courts & Courtiers; Hunters; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CAT AND MOUSE, by ELIZABETH PRATT Poem Text First Line: The claws of life at times remain Last Line: Then you can love and sing -- and pray. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faith; Life; Mice; Belief; Creed CATALOGS, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The little house was well supplied Last Line: And find the treasures we had lost Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CATCH THE SUNSHIME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Catch the sunshine! Miss the showers! Last Line: And you'll gain the pearl at last! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio CATECHISMS: TALKING WITH A FOUR-YEAR-OLD, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: What's the oldest thing that's living? Subject(s): Family Life CATERPILLAR '60', by CRANSTON STROUP Poem Text First Line: The sun / is burning clouds up over lame mare hill Last Line: "the wash: a trifle for tomorrow." Subject(s): Farm Life; Tractors; Agriculture; Farmers CATFISH FARM, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Here's low we do it, out in the sloppy fields Last Line: Bristle and swill, bonepickers with a seasick gait Subject(s): Child Labor; Farm Life; Fields CATHERINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beauteous star arises o'er my night Last Line: Their ghostly scent still haunts my bosom. Subject(s): Fate; Kisses; Life; Night; Stars; Destiny; Bedtime CATHERINE, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Catherine looked, and the night rode by Subject(s): Country Life CATS, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: Cats, no less liquid than their shadows Last Line: Offer no angles to the wind Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Life Change Events CAUTION IN COUNCELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know when to speake; for many times it brings Last Line: Danger to give the best advice to kings. Subject(s): Advice; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CAVE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Between sleeping and waking Last Line: In a cvae of its own making Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CELEBRATING THE SEASON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: House decorated %with touches of christmas Last Line: Suffering with satisfaction Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CELESTIAL DESOLATIONS; FOR MARJORIE SARGENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now god wants even Last Line: Thread by thread. Subject(s): God; Life Change Events; Self-consciousness; Soul CELLAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If I could lift the trap door once again Last Line: And smell the cellar breath, remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CELLS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button stick Last Line: "for ""drunk and resisting the guard." Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics CEMETERY WALK, by BARBARA L. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Trees %spring limbed Subject(s): Family Life CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains Last Line: At the moon or the sun! Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CENSUS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven cities have been excavated Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CENTENNIAL QUILTING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Her hands shake a little Last Line: Stitching both sides %of the fabric together Subject(s): Quilts; Ranch Life CENTER PIVOTS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Fields of canola %on the plains of montana Last Line: In a bowl of granola Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CENTURIES, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: The centuries are gone. There are no more Last Line: Death is not sad but the end of life is. %for without your life can we have our death?' Subject(s): Death; Life; Time CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen Last Line: Finer, while I wheel toward your awakened face, the waterfall of your word Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths CERTAIN DEATH, by HENRY M. SEIDEN Poem Source First Line: I'm the three doomed jews in the terroist joke Last Line: Water for my children's children Subject(s): Death; Life CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne Last Line: An eden both indeede and name Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Faces; Scotland; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CERTAINTY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that human beings / are so certain of everything? Last Line: That cannot be so. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life CHAINS INVISIBLE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies in my garden grow Last Line: To steal the world's delight from me! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Country Life; London; Socialism CHAITIVEL; OR, THE LAY OF LOVE'S UNFORTUNATE, by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and lovers, may ye dwell Last Line: And so they two fight on till doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Love; Women; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHALLENGE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: What polished flattery or slippery truth Last Line: Would make you worthy of his loveliness? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many rooms one occupies to lead Subject(s): Room; Life CHAMBERS OF THE HEART, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I know by heart the floor plan Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives CHAMPAGNE HOUR, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Lawrence welk strikes up %his twenty pieces. Last Line: Past the bathroom door %her arms clink %with four, maybe five, bottles. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CHANGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now life's face beholden Last Line: But now! Subject(s): Change; Life; Love; Roundels CHANGE OF LIFE ... STYLE, by DOROTHY BRUMMEL Poem Source First Line: That my hands were cold and my manners colder Last Line: I'm nw the nouveau poor Subject(s): Change; Life CHANGE THE FORMS IN DREAMS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moved here for no reason. Don't seem to be anywhere Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHANGES, by SHERRY ASBURY Poem Source First Line: To find the shack, just follow along Last Line: But I'm weeping all the same Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Life Change Events CHANGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed Last Line: These thoughts and me. In heaven we shall know all! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Change; Life; Time; Women CHANSON D'OR, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: I shall have a gold room Last Line: With a gold sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Slavery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs CHANT AGAINST HAVING TO GO TO THE PLANTATION, by MARIA PEREZ TZU Poem Source First Line: Listen to me, kajval Subject(s): Peace; Plantation Life CHAPTER HEADING, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For we have thought the longer thoughts Last Line: Another in the day Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHAPTER SEVEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Chicken neck %on a chopping block Last Line: I'm too soon old, %too late smart Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved, through years of happiness Last Line: Of my whole another gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first and my second, united, display Last Line: And his successor came into office next morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHARLES, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: At twenty-one Last Line: A strong and precious daughter Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nicest child I ever knew Last Line: Simply doing right. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHARLES DI TOCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zoe %hurry, basil! Hurry Last Line: Was powerless as flowers along its path Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Greece; Hate; Love; Plays And Playwrights CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away that star and garter Last Line: That have died in vain for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea CHARLES H. PHILIPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend! There is no way Last Line: Thy high reward in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness CHARLESTON PLANTATIONS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: You cannot see them from the road: go far and deep Last Line: Deep in a deathly stillness stand the planters' houses Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Plantation Life CHARLOTTE, THE FROZEN GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Charlotte lived by a mountain side Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life CHARMING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The remnant industry of a dying town's itself Subject(s): City & Town Life CHATSWORTH! THY STATELY MANSION, AND THE PRIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both Subject(s): Country Life CHAUCER'S FLOWER, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now have I thereto this condicioun Subject(s): Country Life CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA, MANY HAPPY RETURNS, SELS., by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: Dear uncle chris, welcome back to my mind Last Line: Tasting, et fangs that bit deep, and went numb Subject(s): Family Life; Reason CHERRY, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: February: the season grips Last Line: Out of range, held tight to twigs Subject(s): Farm Life CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOWING IN WEST BLOWING SNOW, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the farewells in all the airports in all the profane dawns Last Line: Among cherry blossoms blowing in west, blowing in snow, werent we something? Subject(s): Life CHERRY PIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: This her kitchen, where whe worked and sang Subject(s): Farm Life CHESS, by ERIC BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: He is a pawn Last Line: But they are mere pawns in the corporation, %and will never be heard Subject(s): Chess; Corporate Life CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CHIGWELL REVISITED, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deputed by the tuneful nine Last Line: And wormwood at the bottom. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Time; Dead, The; Destiny CHILD ON THE CLIFF, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, the root of this little yellow flower Last Line: I should be happy if that could be Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Memory CHILD ON THE MARSH, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I worked the rivers slick banks, grabbling Last Line: And heard the earths voice under me Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHILDHOOD MEMORIES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking of my childhood Last Line: My fancy makes it true Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio CHILDREN, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Let me say this love, %we've passed into units Last Line: For you see our weighted sighs, %in their young bodies %holding wise Subject(s): Family Life - India CHILDREN IN THE MARKET-PLACE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like children in the market-place Last Line: The everlasting good we seek %we can attain through thee Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight CHILDREN WE KEEP, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: There were five of the children who came to their home Last Line: And await there her coming - they're all she has now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges? Last Line: Father's come home again, etc. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs CHIMNEY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Forget birds, rain in winter Last Line: Your ruined waist Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CHIMNEY-SWEEP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen leaves skitter fleet Last Line: And ever clean the house of woe! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Life; Love; Moon; Time CHINAMAN'S HAT, NORTH SHORE, OAHU, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It's mr. Chang alright, %bent so deep Last Line: With grandchildren he can scarcely recognize %deep in the folds of his hatless mortality Subject(s): Family Life - India CHINESE NEW YEAR, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dragon is in the street dancing beneath windows Last Line: He brings me ghost money Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Conduct Of Life CHINESE PROVERB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The well-being of a people is like a tree Subject(s): Country Life; Proverbs CHINESE SPACE, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Beijing. China; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity CHIP OF FLINT, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: See this %too thin Last Line: From an unknown hand Subject(s): Country Life CHOKE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the ways of forgetting Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHOLERA CAMP, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've got the cholerer in camp Last Line: (gawd 'elp us!) Subject(s): Army Life; Cholera; Drills & Minor Tactics CHONG XIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Chong xin, my little brother, left us Last Line: Were green and full of joyful sparrows Variant Title(s): Chung Shi Subject(s): Family Life - China CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHOOSE LIFE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose life instead of those prisms with no depth even if their colors are purer Subject(s): Life CHOPIN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's sunday evening. Pomp holds the receipts Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives CHOPIN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's sunday evening. Pomp holds the receipts Last Line: And plays chopin. And blessed are the meek %who have to buy in white men's stores next week Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form CHORE TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The milker's steady hoosh - a - hoosh Last Line: Here in this peaceful place! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CHORUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely in no benignant mood Last Line: The disenchanted ledges of old age. Subject(s): Aging; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Youth CHOSEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne wanted to die, that august night Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives CHOSEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne wanted to die, that august night Last Line: Share of the future. And it wasn't rape. %in spite of her raw terror. And his whip Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form CHRIST AND WE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ took our nature on him not that he Last Line: But love and grace took glory by the hand, %and built a braver palace than before Variant Title(s): Christ's Incarnatio Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST CHILD'S CHRISTMAS, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR Poem Source First Line: Oh, brother christ, come play with me Last Line: And overhead, the angel train %waited the christ-child all in vain Variant Title(s): The Christ-chil Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear was within the tossing bark Last Line: "speak, and say, ""peace be still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRIST TO DUMB CREATURES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For man or for your fellows die Last Line: With my humanity are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRIST'S GIVING, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: The spirit of self-sacrifice Last Line: Such was christ's giving. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The shadows of the leafless trees Last Line: That thou hast thus this blessing given %at last to me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 1. IN CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose birth on earth Last Line: Bid the day be born. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Life; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 2. OUTSIDE CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We whose days and ways Last Line: Not for us is born? Subject(s): God; Hope; Life; Night; Optimism; Bedtime CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now comes the ordered prime Last Line: That holds all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS EVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the death-time of the year Last Line: For christ, our lord, is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: It is the cat within us Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel CHRISTMAS LEGEND, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Twas christmas eve, long, long, ago Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN FRANCE, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Snow thick enwraps the ground Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life CHRISTMAS WALTZ, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The winter is here and the old year is passing Last Line: Then all of their slumbers are filled with this song Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life CHRISTS ACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ never did so great a work, but there Last Line: His humane nature, and his part divine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CHRONICLES OF THE ENDS AND THE BEGINNINGS - EARLY YEARNINGS, by RUTH WARAT Poem Source First Line: I love my lover Last Line: A bird on her shoulder, her son Subject(s): Life; Memory CHRONICLES: DUST, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not john's new jerusalem rising out of babylon Last Line: New meaning: there is, of course, nothing more than us Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion CHRYSILLA, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me from seeing, goddess, by my bed Last Line: Close unto everlasting night mine eyes. Subject(s): Life; Love; Time; Youth CHUANG TZU TAKES A NAP, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When I was a wizened poet Last Line: I dreamed I was a poet %imagining a swan Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Farm Life; Homosexuality CHURNING THE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dasher's steady thump goes on and on Last Line: Cool buttermilk is tangy on his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor him alone produc'd the fruitful queen Last Line: And, with her pains, reveng'd his mother's fires. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Life; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The CIRCLE OF LORCA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you take the lost road Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships CIRCLE ON THE CALENDAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How awful to be certain Last Line: Is harder far to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CIRCLES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She seems to go round %in circles as narrow Last Line: In hot air, like a child's %circle on a steamy pane Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CIRCLES - AFTER SEEING IRELAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Circles are easiest and earliest to build Last Line: My life lived in circles too Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE:FALL RIVER HISTORICAL MUSEUM, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know how it is: august, the pears Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Relatives CIRCUS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Tonight, clowns Last Line: -- I want you to see it all clearly, folks. %diogenes, bring the lamp closer Subject(s): Human Rights; Life CITIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can we believe - by an effort Last Line: Await the new beauty of cities? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Cities; Urban Life CITIES, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem is like a tower in the east Last Line: Accursed of all the ages -- kerioth. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, %'see how our works endure!' Subject(s): Life Change Events CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cabalists, the insidious committees Last Line: We wish we had our little sodom back! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES: THE LAST LIGHTS OFF THE WEST, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness a paperweight Last Line: Are these? (curtains.) Subject(s): Cities; West (u.s.); Urban Life; Southwest; Pacific States CITIZEN ON THE COUNTRYMAN, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord how fine the fields be, what sweet living 'tis in the country Subject(s): Country Life CITY, by LAURENCE HARTMUS Poem Text First Line: Sullen city of motile skies Last Line: That is why I mock your law that says I should be as other men. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life CITY AND THE CHILD, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: No cry, really, is meaningless. Only when an archangel Last Line: Flowing through your veins is the seed, the blossom, and the fruit Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets CITY AND VILLAGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din Last Line: Or in my walks at night-time when the village is at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument); Cities; Railroads; Villages; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY AT NIGHT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-black plumes of the fountain Subject(s): City & Town Life; Night; Bedtime CITY AT TWILIGHT, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: The swinging bells engrave in sunset golds Last Line: Faintly, the music of milleniums ...... Subject(s): Cities; Evening; Urban Life; Sunset; Twilight CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Cities; Nativity, The; Urban Life CITY CONTRASTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A barefooted child on the crossing Last Line: Equality in the grave Subject(s): Cities;life; Urban Life CITY COUSIN, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: In her twentieth summer Last Line: Into the grown-up world Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CITY DWELLERS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: For all they see, the stars might never glow Last Line: Fragrance and light, and food for every sense! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY ELEGEIS: 1. THE DAY DREAMERS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day all over the city every person Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES: 2. EVERYWHERE I GO, THERE I AM, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot days of errands and badges, paper, shrill rage Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES: 3. HOUSE HOUR, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pale honey of a kitchen light Subject(s): City & Town Life; Houses CITY ELEGIES: 4. STREET MUSIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet babylon, headphones. Song bones. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Music & Musicians CITY LIMITS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you consider the radiance, that it does not withold Last Line: And fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Country Life CITY MOON, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin moon hurrying, blown from the sea Last Line: Leaps the last chimney-pot, hurries, and fades. Subject(s): Cities; Moon; Urban Life CITY NIGHTS: 1. IN THE TRAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train through the night of the town Last Line: The dazzling vista of streets! Subject(s): Cities; Railroads; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY NIGHTS: 2. IN THE TEMPLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey and misty night Last Line: Neath the weeping moon! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life CITY OF STONES - 1962 CLARYVILLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I walk in the city of stones Last Line: Lichened words, once watered with warm tears Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CITY OF THE LIGHT (1), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Hail the glorious golden city %pictured by the seers of old! Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of thr light Variant Title(s): The City Of Our Hop Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (2), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the golden city %mentioned in the legends old? Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of the light Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY ROOFS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Last Line: The driftwood of the town who have no roof-top and no home! Subject(s): Cities; Roofing & Roofers; Urban Life CITY SONNET, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Watering plants from a wedgewood cup today Last Line: With a tear or two perhaps. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I had a diploma Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there. Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life CITY STREETS AND COUNTRY ROADS, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The city has streets Last Line: Oh, take me away %to the country again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw Last Line: Bathed in light! Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips CITY TREES, by VERE DARGAN Poem Text First Line: The trees along our city streets Last Line: Are lovely, gallant things. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY TREES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees along this city street Last Line: I know what sound is there. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DAWN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenish sky glows up in misty reds Last Line: And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city's street, a roaring blackened stream Last Line: And over all the pale untroubled skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The street-lamps shine in a yellow line Last Line: By the tread of homing feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life CITY VISIONS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the blind milton's memory of light Last Line: And open unseen gates with key of gold? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY WIFE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost before the sun has touched the fields Last Line: Till over the hill the horses slowly climb. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CLARA TO CLOE; EPISTLE FROM CITY LADY TO COUNTRY COUSIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear cloe - I'm deeply your debtor Last Line: C. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CLARITY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Clarity is rare Last Line: To pass beyond %nature's structure Subject(s): Life CLASS 1-A, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is like the awkward, leggy colt Last Line: His hands will ache to hold a plow again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLASS INCIDENT FROM GRAVES, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: At the officers' table, for half an hour afterwards, port Last Line: Mitchell's still in there, hob-nobbing with the officers Subject(s): Army Life CLASSIC BALLROOM DANCES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmothers who wring the necks Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CLAY AND WATER, by SANDRA HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: In my father's brickyard Subject(s): Family Life CLEANING THE ATTIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The room is full of curious ghosts Last Line: As they go up in smoke Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLEANING THE WELL, by PAUL DEAN RUFFIN Poem Source First Line: Each spring there was the well to be cleaned Subject(s): Family Life CLEARING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Long before the front-end loader Last Line: And the ones we will keep Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CLEMENCY IN KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings must not only cherish up the good Last Line: But must be niggards of the meanest bloud. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CLEONE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Her life is a flameless fire Last Line: Dispensing an aimless smoke. Subject(s): Life; Women CLIFF DWELLERS, by RON CHAPPELL Poem Source First Line: Sly, they hover in the shadows Last Line: Where the eons gather stardust %from a people lost in time Subject(s): Ranch Life CLIMBING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I would get me to the upper fields, I look if anywhere Last Line: And I see nothing more for ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Life CLOCK, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In appearance it is the peaceful face of a miller, full, shiny Last Line: And this is supposed to lead us to eternity Subject(s): Clocks; Future Life; Time CLOCKMAKER WITH BAD EYES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I close the shop at six. Welcome wind Last Line: Love whatevr flows. Cooking smoke, woman's blood, %tears. Do you hear what I'm telling you? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Clocks; Labor And Laborers; Life; Time CLOISTER, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: Between to live and to think Last Line: Seeing: being open wide Subject(s): Life CLORINDA AND DAMON, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damon, come drive thy flocks this way Last Line: For all the world is our pan's quire. Subject(s): Country Life CLORUS' SONG, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silly swain, sit down and weep Subject(s): Country Life CLOSE RELATIVES, by RICHARD MURRAY Poem Source First Line: You removed yourself so completely Last Line: The location of your doorbell Subject(s): Family Life CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: Kicked upo into my own eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Cuba CLOUDS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the blue night the unending columns press Last Line: The pacific, october 1913 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Soldiers' Writings CLOUDS, by LAURIE J. LAMON Poem Source First Line: On the news, a man named mark explains Last Line: Without hunger, without grieving, without body Subject(s): Change; Clouds; Family Life; Weather CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the dead cities Last Line: In the heights of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise CLOUDS OF GRAY, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: When we dug her narrow bed Subject(s): Clouds; Farm Life CLOUDS WILL SAIL AND WINDS WILL BLOW, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Country Life CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill. Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother fools from everywhere Last Line: Let us use it soberly. Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The CLUCKING AWAY THE DAY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Banana cream pie clouds Last Line: Clucking away the day Subject(s): Country Life CLUES, by BENEDICT AUER Poem Source First Line: Neatly folded undergarments Subject(s): Family Life COAL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He made a living selling land and coal Last Line: He made a living Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Business; Fathers; Relatives COAL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He made a living selling land and coal Last Line: His signature is firm, decisive, bold: %he made a living Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life COAL COUNTRY, by JULIE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: Rhubarb. The side yard of a house that was once hers Last Line: The petunias and geraniums gone Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Country Life COAT, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Always it will be too big for me, this gift Last Line: Along its length, the frayed stiches, the pattern %of small bones Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Family Life; History CODA, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not, Subject(s): Divorce; Conduct Of Life CODE POEM FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE, by LEO MARKS Poem Source First Line: The life that I have is all that I have Last Line: Will be yours and yours and yours Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love COFFEE ROW, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: They gather each morning Last Line: Away from the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COLD WINTER NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I rode out one cold winter night Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life COLDEST NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cold is a creature who pads and growls Last Line: He will get us all if the red fire dies! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COLERIDGE'S SKY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady! In this wan and heartless mood Subject(s): Country Life COLIN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle maid, consent to be Last Line: Quit for these thy liberty. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COLLAGE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summers / summers Last Line: Summers / summers Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Family Life; Summer COLUMBIS CIRCLE SWING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old mr. Christopher sailed an egg Subject(s): Modern Life COME - BY - CHANCE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I pondered very weary o' er a volume long and dreary Last Line: You have had the luck to linger just a while in 'come-by-chance' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fortune; Life COME CLOSE MY EYES, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our evil days grow shorter and the span Last Line: May be the true porphyrogenitus Subject(s): Death; Future Life COME LET US EAT AND DRINK TODAY, by JUAN DE LA ELCINA Poem Source First Line: Come, let us eat and drink today Last Line: For we must part tomorrow Subject(s): Life COME TO ME IN DREAMS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O come to me in dreams love! Last Line: In dreams love, come to me! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Return to reap and sing Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Country Life COME, LET US WALK THIS LAND TOGETHER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That whoso hears must hear again Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Love; Life COMFORT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Last Line: Eternal rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Comfort; Fate; Hope; Life; Soul; Destiny; Optimism COMFORT OF HAVING A FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To match the grief that s/he is taken away. Shall one bury the friendship with the friend? Subject(s): Life Change Events COMFORT YE!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In that sweet after-life Last Line: "and bid us ""welcome home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COMFORTED, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: A great wind blowing, raging sea Last Line: My heart is comforted in thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMING TO THE KING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from very far away to see Last Line: Within the fair pavilion of thy presence blest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMMANDS FOR THE END OF SUMMER, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deepen,/leaves, not with what Subject(s): Conduct Of Life COMMENCEMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tired old warriors on the hill Last Line: Give him a better blade to hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among these north shore tennis tans I sit Last Line: Up pops a daddy with a nikon. Click Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among these north shore tennis tans I sit Subject(s): Family Life COMMERCIAL LEECH FARMING TODAY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it never rivaled wheat, soybean Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers COMMERCIAL LEECH FARMING TODAY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it never rivaled wheat, soybean Last Line: I like the story because it's true Subject(s): Farm Life COMMON LIGHT, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: That which I should have done Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Family Life COMMON LIVING DIRT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small ears prick up on the bushes Last Line: On our knees, the common living dirt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion COMMUNING WITH MOTHER NATURE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON: 'I WALK ALONE'..., by MARTHA KINNEY Poem Source First Line: Hey, dig the marines taking a break Last Line: Right smack off the captain's knife Subject(s): Army Life; Nature; Women COMMUNION: 1. FIDES, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a peak of limitless ascent Last Line: Radiant upon the starless precipice of birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Future Life; Trust; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COMPANION OF QUIET, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who have shared the sunset with me knows Last Line: And let no word be contemplate or said. Subject(s): Quiet Life COMPANION PIECES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You come to the summit alone, Last Line: Alone at the summit, he dips his long cup, %her wings budding all day in his bright heart. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love COMPANIONSHIP, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger by me in the toils of life Last Line: But take the cross in sunshine and in rain. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery COMPASSION, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Would you smash a cocoon %if you already know Last Line: Before it can even know %what its heart is beating for? Subject(s): Abortion; Life COMPENSATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the night of doubt and error Last Line: A cloud that shades us in our need. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Night; Bedtime COMPLAINS OF THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a great court, near a fam'd river's side Last Line: Grieve for one loss, and straight another spy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMPLAINT, by DAVID HILTON Poem Source First Line: What pleases most today is small Last Line: Lacking breath for love or hate Subject(s): Life COMPLEAT ANGLER AND 'THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ...', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English COMPOSITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sliced onions, pulled this morning from the row Last Line: Fit for a king, or for the farmer's supper Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COMRADE CHRIST, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Give us jesus christ, the carpenter Last Line: Christ, the carpenter, has come again. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry COMRADE JESUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: I tramped the pavement, cursing god Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold not in our power Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine CONCEIT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full 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 CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING HER BLACKBIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: By the oil lamp she was sewing as I glued my Last Line: Would not change me into a blackbird Subject(s): Family Life - China CONCLUSION, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't expect Last Line: There will never be enough %for everyone Subject(s): Grief; Life CONDIMENTS, by DONELLE R. RUWE Poem Source First Line: When my sister was miss idaho Last Line: And smiled and waved and waved Subject(s): Change; Children; Fathers; Life CONDUCT UNBECOMING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Professional caregivers - rns, cns Last Line: They could have been making fun of my mother! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CONFESSION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am part pagan Last Line: Who sneaks home from chasing deer Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONFESSION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Heavens, I haven't finished sinning yet! Last Line: To magnify god's glory when I'm saved Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CONFESSION, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T is friday night, a lone bird hollers Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CONFESSIONS, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: That time father spanked me (the only time, he said), I wanted him Last Line: From his throat. Who turned off the alarm? She cried, who %turned off the alarm? Subject(s): Confessions; Family Life CONFESSIONS OF A COURTEOUS SOUTHERN WOMAN: SAYING THE MAGIC WORDS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Passion is one thing, %but what about raising. Last Line: I say please and thank you %and come out, come out, %like late, long rides. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love CONFIDENCE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The mosquito is %sneaky Last Line: Confidence %is all about Subject(s): Country Life CONFIRMATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Last Line: But like yourself, as they were meant to be Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love CONFUSION, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This is confusion translated %from one part of the head to another Last Line: You shouldn't answer any questions Subject(s): Family Life - India CONJUGI CARISSIMAE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marble fragment, freed at last Last Line: "conjugi carissimae." Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Past; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 6. HEALTH AND STRENGTH, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Books say everybody can live forever Last Line: Fog the smog to life without end! Subject(s): Activity; Health; Life CONQUERORS: A PAGE IN HISTORY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The swath cut by the obsidian blade Last Line: A few coins washed up on a florida beach Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONSEQUENCES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Conduct Of Life; Relationships CONSIDER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now green comes springing o'er the heath Last Line: "none striving, constraining none, and thinking not on death." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So what! Moved . . . Moved . . . Subject(s): Grief; Conduct Of Life CONSTANCY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery CONSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the sidewalk Subject(s): City & Town Life CONTENTMENT, by FLORA M. KENISTON Poem Text First Line: People who live where the sound of the ocean Last Line: Are sweetest of music which lulls me to sleep. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Nature CONTENTMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended Last Line: Is all I ask. Subject(s): Contentment; Evening; Life; Love; Pity; Sunset; Twilight CONTEST, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woodman, fisher, and a swain Subject(s): Country Life CONTINUANCE, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Text First Line: We cannot die who live on in our seed Last Line: We do not die who live on in our seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Life CONTINUITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No sign is made while empires pass Last Line: Some yet more lovely masterpiece. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Art & Artists; God; Life; Nature - Religious Aspects CONTRABAND, by INA H. BEAN Poem Text First Line: Lovelier than the glow Last Line: The prairie's contraband. Subject(s): Farm Life; Plants; Agriculture; Farmers; Planting; Planters CONTRADICTION, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the deep quiet - all buried in leaves Last Line: That has made you the creature you are, not your will. Subject(s): Life; Love CONTRAST, by AUBERT EDGAR BRUCE Poem Source First Line: What wrote he on the parched and dusty ground Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CONTRAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world has many seas, mediterranean, atlantic, but Last Line: Mind to stand with the trees, one life with / the mountains Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CONTRASTED SCENES FROM REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand Last Line: Thy potent aid—be still the outcast's friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes CONVERGENCES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen he dismisses his mother with contempt. Subject(s): Life CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT, by ADELINA ADALIS Poem Source First Line: One of midnight's charms is a muted terror Last Line: Over shimmering clouds of human warmth Subject(s): Farm Life CONVERSATION IN WOODSIDE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Joe insisted that life is extreme Last Line: And joe tipped back on two legs %of his chair, balancing there Subject(s): Life CONVERSATION WITH A SON, by SHIRLEY GATES COCHRANE Poem Source First Line: He brings me seasoned wood Subject(s): Family Life CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature COOPER'S HILL, by JOHN DENHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Sure there are poets which did never dream Last Line: And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza Last Line: Will be tumbling about us. Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORIDON'S SONG (IN ISAAK WALTON'S 'COMPLEAT ANGLER'), by JOHN CHALKHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sweet contentment Last Line: Turn countryman with me. Variant Title(s): The Praise Of A Countryman's Life Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life CORN SONG, by BENJAMIN WALLACE DOUGLASS Poem Source First Line: Across the april valleys run Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life CORNELIA'S REPLY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelia, a matron of ancient rome Last Line: The pure quenchless light of a mother's love! Subject(s): Family Life; Housewives; Love; Mothers & Sons; Rome, Italy; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes CORNPICKER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sheds left out in the darkness Last Line: Is waiting, its its empty gas cans around it Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CORNPICKER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sheds left out in the darkness Last Line: Somewhere the sullen chilled machine %is waiting, its empty gas cans around it Subject(s): Farm Life CORONATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the king's gate the subtle noon Last Line: Slave in his father's stead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The CORPORATE ENTITY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oklahoma ligno and lithograph co. Last Line: Weeps at a nude by michelangelo. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Corporate Life CORPORATE MEETING, by STANLEY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Not an oblong, as one would envision Last Line: Unfathomable hours that seem %to glide from coffee to coffee Subject(s): Business; Corporate Life CORTEGE, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sea could dream, and if the sea Subject(s): Life; Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides Last Line: Too long the idle night! Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COTTAGE LEFT FOR LONDON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The covert walk, the mossy apple-trees Last Line: Water unfit to drink and air to breathe. Subject(s): Country Life; London COTTAGE MUSK, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in caprice or through neglect Last Line: You'll find it nowhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Herbs; Dead, The COTTAGE SONG, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and night I bring Last Line: Above my lavender. Subject(s): Country Life COULD I BUT RIDE INDEFINITE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tight in dungeons are Subject(s): Freedom; Conduct Of Life COUNT THE DAYS OF SUMMER AHEAD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Count the ones who've already fallen Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Counting; Life COUNTRY AFTERNOON, by FLORENCE CROW Poem Text First Line: I had forgotten wheatfields Last Line: On a country air. Variant Title(s): Let Me Remember Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY AND TOWN, by CHARLES MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In london I never know what I'd be at Last Line: O, give me the sweet shady side of pall mall. Variant Title(s): The Contrast Subject(s): Country Life; Towns COUNTRY AND TOWN, by ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN Poem Source First Line: Summer's reign is nearly past Subject(s): Country Life; Towns COUNTRY BEDROOM, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room's a square and candle-lighted boat Last Line: Far off one owl amidst the waves of dark Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY CLERGY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see them working in old rectories Last Line: Or out of time will correct this Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Clergy; Country Life COUNTRY COMMISSIONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cousin charles, please to send down to-morrow Last Line: I cannot do half what you wish! Subject(s): Country Life; Parks; Poetry & Poets COUNTRY CONCERT, by CLAIRE PUNEKY Poem Source First Line: Cicada-led Last Line: While on a country porch %I sit and rock Subject(s): Country Life; Music And Musicians COUNTRY COURTSHIP, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed on a beautiful picture Last Line: Thrilled with young dreams of love. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Paintings And Painters COUNTRY CURES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places, where you might have been sent Last Line: Of their gaunt houses; or see their white %faces setting on a blank day Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY DANGER, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, as two little brothers, who address'd Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY DOCTOR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS Poem Text First Line: Today, in that old junk-pile down the hill Last Line: "how could you guess -- you never rode in one!" Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Physicians; Doctors COUNTRY DOCTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The doctor was an angry man Last Line: I am alive today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COUNTRY DUSK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind dies down, and if you Last Line: Meant to be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COUNTRY FUNERAL, by AMY LEE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This is the greatest day you ever knew Last Line: You have known fame at last -- among the dead. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Funerals; Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Burials COUNTRY HOUSES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Country houses crack their knuckles, click their teeth Last Line: The first shot ricochets off the closet door Subject(s): Country Life; Houses COUNTRY LANDSCAPE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This involves more than just the water standing Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LARGESSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring a message from the stream Last Line: Round me I scatter. Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In simmer when the hay was mawn Last Line: "what mair hae queens upon a throne?" Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LORE: SOWING DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sow your wheat in muddy weather Last Line: In the dust your barley sow Subject(s): Farm Life;plants; Agriculture;farmers;planting;planters COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry COUNTRY MARRIAGE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They married out of school Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives COUNTRY MIDWIFE: A DAY, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bend over the woman Last Line: And I let her bleed, lord, I let her bleed Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Farm Life COUNTRY MIRACLE, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Source First Line: As I came over the rise by stewart's ash Last Line: We met, blind allies punctual to the minute, %as I came over the rise by stewart's rise Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRY MUSIC, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We sit in the rural gloaming Last Line: From the sounds we hear at home! Subject(s): Country Life; Music & Musicians COUNTRY ROAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the painting that hangs in our dining room Last Line: Little things of no great importance, but I'm %aware of them Subject(s): Country Life; Paintings And Painters; Roads COUNTRY SALE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English COUNTRY SCHOOL, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Inside the schoolhouse Last Line: Toward any kind of light Subject(s): Classmates; Family Life; Prairies; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COUNTRY SEAT, by JAMES ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: With the farmhouse, my accountant acquired a hilltop barn Last Line: I cannot see anything, really: four pale lights against the green Subject(s): Barns; Country Life; Hunting COUNTRY SUMMER, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood Last Line: Morning and evening in the corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRY TRUCKS, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big trucks with apples Last Line: They know more trucks are coming %as surely as the moon Subject(s): Farm Life; Trucks And Trucking COUNTRY WAYS, by MARCIA LEE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: Either to keep the thinking in Last Line: Slowly, the pines drew night up the banks, %the silence of books settled over the hills Variant Title(s): Impressions Of My Fathe Subject(s): Country Life; Fathers COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apart from branches in courtyards and small stones Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue shadow of the wagon Last Line: Round and round the marigold Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons COUNTRYSIDE IN NEW ENGLAND, by MABEL A. METCALF Poem Source First Line: From mill and mart to peace of god's rich realm Last Line: With splendor of the universal source Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE: 12, by JOSE GOMES FERREIRA Poem Source First Line: So many flowers - blue, green, white, yellow, red and the lilies Last Line: Fragrant with the wonder of existence %and the dream of all natural things Subject(s): Colors; Country Life; Flowers; Nature COUPLET ON HIS GROTTO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And life itself can nothing more supply Last Line: Than just to plan our projects, and to die. Subject(s): Life COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE Poem Text First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile. Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers COURIER, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Eleven days passed Last Line: And the pregnant promise of %next time Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina COUSIN ELLA GOES TO TOWN, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: Now you have to promise Subject(s): Family Life; Identity COUSIN NANCY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss nancy ellicott Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Girls; Modern Life COUVRE-FEU; AFTER PAUL ELUARD (IN PEACETIME), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could you expect Last Line: Were on flesh one bone Subject(s): City & Town Life COVERLET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I would weave words for your first birthday Last Line: A gift to wrap the child I've yet to see Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COVERS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glass covers windows %to keep the cold away Last Line: Blankets cover me %when I'm asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life COW DOGS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The ranchers I knew as a boy Last Line: Dust rising from the baked earth, %night settling on the silent ranch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life COW PIE JEWELS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Plop %in the middle of the path Last Line: To swoop up the jewels %and leave the pie Subject(s): Country Life COW TRADIN' BY THE RIO GRANDE, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Phil statler had a bunch of cows sold to red robb Last Line: But they was dead sons-of-bitches while they was a walkin' Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o' Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States COWBOY WENT A-COURTIN', by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: This bunkhouse talk of cowboy romance Last Line: That's when he heard her last request Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOYIN' DAY, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: Morning is just a thin line to the east Last Line: And thanks again, lord, for my day in the saddle %amen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOYS BETWEEN RANCHES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Mom and dad auctioned their ranch in 1960 Last Line: Their eyes remind me of the wilderness %glowing defiantly in the dark Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWDOGS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now some cowdogs have pedigrees Last Line: If we had a dog that could work cows %we would know what to name him Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWPATH, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I walk slower... %steps more uncertain Last Line: To where the farmhouse stood Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Knee deep in may with grassy june before them Last Line: Pleasure: led dimly off, their only madness, flies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland COYOTE BITCH, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Tonight - %I feel like a coyote bitch Last Line: Who never appear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women; Women - Writers COYOTE CREEK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a small canyon, very small Last Line: While the sun sank all at once behind him. Subject(s): Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Nature; Prayer; Relatives COYOTE'S WILDERNESS LOBBY, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Dog, pony and coyote Last Line: Behind him down %the capital steps Subject(s): Lobbying And Lobbyists; Ranch Life COYOTES AND WATERMELONS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Some facts are great fun Last Line: How a coyote opened a watermelon Subject(s): Ranch Life CRACKED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Baby tooth, I finger Last Line: New best friend Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CRACKING UP, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: By far the most handsome of all the velasco boys, jesse got drafted in '68 Last Line: Waiting to be let back inside Subject(s): Accidents; Family Life; Miracles; Tragedy CRADLE OF PEACE, by MARION S. O'NEIL Poem Source First Line: The eve of christmas: to the still, dark barn Subject(s): Farm Life CRAFTY FARMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The song that I'm going to sing Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Farm Life CRAGS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a good and reverend man Last Line: In his by nature's sacred right. Subject(s): Time; Life; Nature CRASH TEST DUMMIES OF AN IMPERFECT GOD, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we are so stupid Subject(s): God; Life CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water. Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CRAZY QUILT, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Applique, a tree of life behind her eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Insanity; Life CRAZY QUILT - NEW YORK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here earth holds pastures, meadows, airports Last Line: Little roads and paths, rail fences and old stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CRAZY TUTTLE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Today aunt ella is the only person Last Line: It could have meant %go plow corn.' Subject(s): Family Life CREATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After the long dearth, the fallow time Last Line: The blank page sprouts with the new green words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CREATION, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: High propositions of barrenness Last Line: And then restored Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Heaven; Rebirth; Spiritual Life CREATION, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: First it was a fire Last Line: This home, %this where we are Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life CREDO, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the end, then? Not a sigh, a kiss Last Line: In a cool meadow which salt winds leave wet. Subject(s): Life; Rest; Sleep CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember the night you told me Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War CRISTINA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She should never have looked at me Last Line: This world's use will have been ended. Subject(s): Infatuation; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CROQUET, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: This decorous, nineteenth-century Last Line: And in dining-room tones %says, 'keep your manners but play for keeps' Subject(s): Family Life CROSS LOTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Young johnny burroughs went cross lots to school Last Line: But burroughs wandered cross lots all his days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROSS MY HEART, by EVELYN GRACE FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Spring is a young girl, pink and white Last Line: -- and rest awhile with winter, death's envoy. Subject(s): Life; Seasons CROSSING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Beside the road %a rabbit crouches to spring Last Line: I wish they had no road to cross Subject(s): Country Life CROSSING THE BARRIER MOUNTAINS, by ZHANG ZHENG-JIAN Poem Source First Line: Barrier mountains, crossed at dawn's moon Last Line: And when they hear the sobbing waters, %all are stricken by the heartbreaking sound Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains CROSSING THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cars play a monotonous follow - the - leader Last Line: Clouds swirl up from the whirling wheels Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a cab at port authority Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Immigrants; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CROW, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: Two boys - and crow - at 50 yards Last Line: Too far from death to understand a kill Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life CROW COME FROM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No one will listen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Family Life; Nature; Psychoanalysis CROWD CONDITIONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frontier, imperfect sympathies are twinkling Last Line: Such, my friends, is life wondered the president Variant Title(s): Always Merry And Bright Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight CROWD CONDITIONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frontier, imperfect sympathies are twinkling Last Line: Such, my friends, is life, wondered the president Variant Title(s): Always Merry And Brigh Subject(s): Happiness; Life CROWS AT THE SUMMER PALACE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Dissipated feathers on roofs, why roll Last Line: Queens are dead. No kings sit on the throne Subject(s): Family Life - China CROWS, JUST BEFORE FLIGHT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The flock exceeds the tree Last Line: All of this seemed important to say before I said it Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Farm Life CRUCIFERI, by EUPHEMIA MACLEOD Poem Text First Line: A silent train, they pass along Last Line: Triumphant, scale the heights of god! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 2. CHRIST IN THE GARDEN, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, how he glows for heat! Last Line: He only breathes a sigh, and weeps a tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry CRUEL SHIP CARPENTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pretty polly, pretty polly, would you think. Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life CRUELT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a dog-like madnesse in bad kings Last Line: So kings by killing doe encrease their foes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CRUELTY, DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT CRUELTY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I never know what I might do Subject(s): Cruelty; Family Life; Cockroaches CRUX VIA CAELORUM: 4, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark cave below Last Line: Tempt me, these thoughts will then my mind uphold. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Spiritual Life CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Farm Life CUI BONO?, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is hope? A smiling rainbow Last Line: One small grave is what he gets. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Mankind CULLING THE HERD, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: When the new chick flopped Last Line: And bundled him close %and nursed him Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life CUPID'S EXPERIMENT, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Cupid planted a bulb in my 'garden of fate' Last Line: For the dead past that's faded away Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio CURRICULUM MORTIS, by SUE NEVILL Poem Source First Line: You always ask about my life, she said Last Line: Very smoothly. %really Subject(s): Life; London CURRICULUM VITAE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in a free city, near the north sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Parenthood CURSE THE THORNS OF FATE, by RUHI Poem Source First Line: Curse the thorns of fate, and damn as well its roses and its garden Last Line: Remain with allah -- think not of life, nor pray for the delights hereafter Subject(s): Fate; Future Life CURTAIN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villain shows his indiscretion Last Line: Villain skips, and all are happy. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life CURTAIN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When one has lived Last Line: And struggle, struggle—to the end! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Life CURVE, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: His 16-year-old torso Last Line: With gimmicks, devices. Little ploys %for seeing nothing whatever Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel CUSSIN' WOMAN, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cussin' woman's a trial to hear Last Line: Cuz I'm a cussin' woman Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line' Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill." Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers CUTTING THE EASTER COLT, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: This saddlebag surgeon readies his tools Last Line: Reflected in the gold %chalice of the gelding's eye Subject(s): Farm Life CYCLE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: The sun's hot rays reach to the earth Last Line: True progeny of the sun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Miracles; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CYCLES, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: This hyacinth is some dead poet's dust Last Line: Death beckons—whither?—what?—no words betray. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The CYNIC?, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Since being born's a sin we must atone Last Line: And all awards are consolation prizes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Life CYNICS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Between old pan and pandemonium Last Line: We would reshape our lives—it is too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Life; War; World War I; First World War CYNTHIA, by EDWARD DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the fairest mountain tops Last Line: But yet a woman's heart.' Subject(s): Country Life; Love DA FARMER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I don'ta care eef all dees town Last Line: I don'ta care! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers DAD'S ACCORDION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dad, no matter how you played it to your daughter Last Line: Because it frightened you,' was all you said Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland DAD'S DINKY, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At the wake, dad drank Last Line: And drank long from a tall, clear glass Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life; Fathers DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I bought the daffodils Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses DAGUERREOTYPE OF A GRANDMOTHER, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Is this the sum of her, or was she human? Subject(s): Family Life DAILY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These shriveled seeds we plan Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAILY LIFE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parrot of irritation sits Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers DAMON THE MOWER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark how the mower damon sung Last Line: For death thou art a mower too. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Dead, The DAMON'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world is made a hell Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Country Life DANCE OF DEATH: FARMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with plow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dirt; Farm Life; Fields DANCING BOOTS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: The screen door slams against the concrete wall of the house as I run out the Last Line: To the sideline, my brother and I Subject(s): Adolescence; Dancing And Dancers; Family Life; Teenagers DANGERS WAIT ON KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As oft as night is banish'd by the morne Last Line: So oft, we'll think, we see a king new born. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DANIEL AT BREAKFAST, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His paper propped against the electric toaster Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DANSE RUSSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If when my wife is sleeping Last Line: The happy genius of my household? Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Solitude; Relatives; Loneliness DARK PRINCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young I knew the dark prince Last Line: Why did you wait so long? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DARKEST LEAVES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I recall the morning crying awake Last Line: In & out of rooms, & dreams, %through the darkest leaves Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland DARTMOOR: SUNSET AT CHAGFORD: HOMO LOQVITUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ironical, a fool enigma Last Line: Nor even dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Mankind; Surgery; Sunset; Twilight; Human Race DASH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dash, to break Last Line: The dash says %hurry up! %no, %wait Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DATIVE HARUSPICES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Film and filament, no Subject(s): Life DATIVE HARUSPICES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Film and filament, no Last Line: Guarded by an arrow %in what hour Subject(s): Life DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay errors Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Subject(s): Life; Mothers & Daughters DAUGHTER-MOTHER-MAYA-SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To replay agonies was the necessary terror Last Line: When you gather around me %newness comes into the world Subject(s): Life; Mothers And Daughters DAUGHTERS, 1900, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives DAUGHTERS, 1900, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch Last Line: The fourth concedes, 'well, maybe not in church...' %five daughters in the slant light on the porch Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form DAWENDINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a spirit on the river, there's a ghost upon the shore Last Line: And the shadows of the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Hate; Legends; Love; Supernatural; Vendetta; Relatives; Feuds DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: In the depth of silence Last Line: Where life will be retold. Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise DAWN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city lifts toward heaven from the continent of sleep Last Line: And the footsteps of early workers are building the streets to the river Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Urban Life; Sunrise DAY AND NIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night comes and hides a way Last Line: New light. Subject(s): Life DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is falling on lake and on land Last Line: One added night, . . . To so many their last! Subject(s): Evening; Life; Peace; Silence; Sunset; Twilight DAY AT THE FARM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurrah! For a day with the farmer Subject(s): Farm Life DAY DREAMS - OUR STAR, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Thou said 'twas 'our star', where in future we'd dwell Last Line: That land so celestial - sirius - our star! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DAY IN MAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Linda's dresses are billowed wide Last Line: Play - at - home day! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY IN THE COUNTRY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: The attraction's undeniable. The haystacks lined up Last Line: Find the right distance to see Subject(s): Cities; Country Life DAY MY FATHER CRIED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day my father cried Last Line: That day my whole world changed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY THE ALLIGATOR CAME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I've never been sure what my fence is about Last Line: Any chance to communicate was missed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAYS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: How can I tell which days have yielded fruit? Last Line: Shall on the last day bring me blame or praise? Subject(s): Day; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DAYS IN THE LIFE, by MANJU KANCHULI Poem Source First Line: Either, from stained clothes Last Line: Drawn by thoughts of my fledglings Subject(s): Life; Superstition DAYS OF ABSENCE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: These dark days of absence how bitter they are Last Line: I too will soon be lying beneath the gray stone Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DAYS OF PIE AND COFFEE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A motorist once said to me Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Conduct Of Life; Salespersons; Selling DE MORTE, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mans life's a tragedy: his mothers womb Last Line: And trouble him; then death's his epilogue. Subject(s): Life DE OLE SEXTON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brudder amos is de sexton Last Line: It am nebber gwine ter fail. Subject(s): African Americans; Future Life; Sin; Negroes; American Blacks; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a stubble field, where a black rain is falling Last Line: Angels of crystal rang out once more Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Farm Life DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has this bugbear death to frighten man Last Line: As he who dy'd a thousand years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): Translations From Lucretius De Rerum Natura: From The Latter Part Of Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The DE RIBBER OB LIFE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt dat I saw de ribber ob life Last Line: Dat flows to de jaspah sea. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Life; Rivers DE VITA BEATA; PARAPHRASED FROM THE LATIN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, y'are deceiv'd, and what you do Last Line: Has power fortune to disthrone. Subject(s): Life DEAD OR ALIVE IN BELGIUM, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody you think is dead is alive Subject(s): Life; Death; Belgium; Dead, The DEAD, MY LORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Last Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Praise; Dead, The DEAR BOB, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life DEAR FRIEND, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will be served for our reception Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DEAR LOVELY DEATH, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear lovely death, %change is thy other name Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events DEAR TOGETHERNESS, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of paradise, - and still Last Line: To still go on, and go together Subject(s): Family Life DEAR VIRTUAL LIFER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is strictly a what-if proposition Last Line: You don't have a clue, do you Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Life; Prisons And Prisoners DEAREST, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day broke Subject(s): Family Life; Disappointment; Relatives DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DEATH, by HERMANN HESSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief and lamentation are our first natural response to the Last Line: This, the dead live on by our side, their image is saved and %helps to make our grief fruitful Subject(s): Life Change Events DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not loneliness of soul Last Line: The silver cords of love and life. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my friends, that we are growing old Last Line: The mother of our youth!—she maketh speed. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, I am dying! And to feel the Last Line: Soh, bless me! I am dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grave-worm revels now Last Line: It is the second birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH AND LIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the heart and stay the breath Last Line: Just for you and just for me. Subject(s): Life DEATH AND LIFE ARE INTIMATES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us blow up the whole business Last Line: To turn to, no relationship / as intimate Subject(s): Life; Death DEATH IS NOT THE END, by PETER TATCHELL Poem Source Last Line: And released from the prison of the cocoon %it flies free Subject(s): Life Change Events DEATH OF CAMELS, by CARRIE ST. GEORGE COMER Poem Source First Line: The clouds have gypsy blood in them today Last Line: Fear stands like a white statue in my chest Subject(s): Memory; Spiritual Life DEATH OF JUAN CHACON, by FIN BAYLES Poem Source First Line: The eastern sky was growing light Last Line: But they're never gonna get the chance %'cause juan chacon is dead Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DEATH ON SOUTH HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The old woman lay on the crumpled feather bed Last Line: At the door: if I can help, will you let me know? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEATH'S A DEBT THAT EVERYBODY OWES, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With fortune our pilot, weather fair or foul, %all alike drop anchor in the grave Subject(s): Life Change Events DEATH'S DIGNITY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a common man. His horny hands Last Line: The strange and sudden dignity of death. Variant Title(s): Mortis Dignitas Subject(s): Death; Faces; Life; Tears; Dead, The DEATHWATCH, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This woman is nobody's woman Last Line: Checkmark in the dark Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mourning DEBORAH, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: A song of deborah Subject(s): Farm Life DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The punctual sun hangs lower now Last Line: And warmth of christmas is heart - whole Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER NIGHT AT RUDOLPH FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A moonless night Last Line: For the holidays Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wintergreen and partridge berry Last Line: This is the lean - ribbed time of year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER RAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: December rain is like no other rain Last Line: The last ablution of the dying year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Come with me to the snowy woods Last Line: Will watch us walk in the glistening wood! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER'S THRUSH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on an oaken twig, apart Subject(s): Country Life DECLINE AND FALL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a city also. Hand in hand Subject(s): City & Town Life; Ruins; Defeat DECONSTRUCTION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Rummaging in rubble %critics are scribbling Last Line: In a farmer's stubble Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DEDICATION, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: My father was dedicated to his work Last Line: Yes,' he said, 'the world is a small place.' Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers DEDICATION FOR THE LIFE OF REASON, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth Last Line: I suffered much, but something understood. Subject(s): Life Choices; Reason DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEED OF GIFT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When frost quavered for kennedy Last Line: Our short-lived leader said Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEER IN THE GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Delicate hooves leave cloven prints Last Line: In the april dusk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEER SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Three does slip from the woods at dawn Last Line: Sudden death Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEFEATED FARMER, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift as he will a wordless face Subject(s): Farm Life DEFIANCE TO CUPID, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in this grave Subject(s): Graves; Death; Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The DEFIANT, COLD AND BRAVE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I found a violet today Subject(s): Farm Life DEJECTION, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore tonight so full of care Last Line: Yet are they only not enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Life; Melancholy; Dejection DELIVERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deliverance? You mean this empty cup Last Line: The irresistible current of my past? Subject(s): Future; Life; Past; Time DELIVERED, by A. ANDERS GRAFSTROM Poem Text First Line: The night was chilly -- home gunnar sped Last Line: The deliverer came—it was death! Subject(s): Death; Family Life; God; Hunger; Poverty; Salvation; Dead, The; Relatives DELROY AND FRIEND, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: We laugh strongest because we laugh Last Line: And winner ate dug-up dirt Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life DELROY THE DANCER-EXPLORER, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: I dance myself all clear Last Line: A dancer-boy explorer Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life DELROY THE SKATEBOARD ROLLER, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: Sittn down is all immobility Last Line: To roll with, calm calm, without end Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life DELTA FARM, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: A friend weighs little a wife Last Line: To tree at last my daughter learns %to walk Subject(s): Farm Life DENIAL, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: It is not down this road I walk Subject(s): Country Life; Nature DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life DESCENDE CAELO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world gives little scope Last Line: When you strew them on my bier! Subject(s): Doubt; Life DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not till from fretful clamor rude we cease Last Line: Forevermore. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Peace; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit DESCRIPTION OF A MUSICAL CONSORT OF BIRDS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two nights thus pass'd: the lily-handed morn Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Variant Title(s): The Concer Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTION OF ELIZIUM, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A paradise on earth is found Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTION OF HUMAN LIFE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O life, or at least a certain fleeting madness Last Line: Of the vagrant year, his own sober defender Subject(s): Life DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank as I sat a-fishing Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wave breaks Last Line: Dont know what to say Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DESDICHADA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The DESERT COYOTE, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is sadness among the stones Last Line: Of hot winds. I am not the desert %but its name is no so far from mine Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Ranch Life DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: Abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Urban Life DESTIN, by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: 44, the last summer of the war Last Line: Of what I've now seen fifty times in reruns Subject(s): Children; Family Life; War DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips DESTINY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why each is striving, from of old Last Line: An aimless unallay'd desire. Subject(s): Desire; Life DESTINY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I knew we must be parted Last Line: It is our destiny Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DESTITUTE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: E was so good,' she sobbed Subject(s): Farm Life DETAILS, by ANN SIMS Poem Source First Line: Mama sensed a quiet glow Last Line: Let's not bother %your daddy %with details Subject(s): Details; Family Life DEUTERONOMY 32: 9-12. THE FIRST FLIGHT, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For the lord's portion is his people Last Line: And there was no strange god with him Subject(s): Country Life DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What a dinghy I am! Oarless Last Line: The ouch! Was mine and not the tree's Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVILKIN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: My dolls lock themselves in their house Last Line: His clumsy hands curled about his head Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVOTION, by MINNETTE SLAYBACK CARPER Poem Text First Line: She stole a moment from each day of toil Last Line: The grass is clipped, and flowers are planted there. Subject(s): Family Life; Women; Man-woman Relationships DEZIR, by FERRANT SANCHEZ CALAVERA Poem Source First Line: For love of god, let's put aside the veil Last Line: To life eternal where he never dies! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry And Poets DIAGNOSES, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lange's voice drifts Last Line: I try to stop it %but nothing lasts Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DIAL-HANDS, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Index and thumb come from the invisible arm thrust from a shoulder Last Line: Die. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierr Subject(s): Future Life; Hands; Thumbs; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DIAMOND MORNING, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Away off, up the road, and over Last Line: None but a god could have done this Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DIANE'S PERSONAL GHOST RANCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine riding a ghost-stallion, my Subject(s): Ghosts; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Ranch Life DIARIES OF JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not sea harvest or land harvest Last Line: A life I read and live as if it were my own Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DICKHEAD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alienation (social); Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DID LIFE'S PENURIOUS LENGTH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Protects our sanity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1717; Poem: 175 Subject(s): Life DID MY SONS FORGET, by MARILYN ELAINE CARMEN Poem Source First Line: Two mother's day cards Subject(s): Family Life DIE AND BE BURIED WHO WILL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The primitive pines among Subject(s): Life DIE PARZEN, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, o you who have the power to do so Last Line: Nothing more than this was necessary Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Life; Mortality DIETER'S DAUGHTER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: Mom's got this taco guy's poem Last Line: Melons we eat %down %to the bitter rind Subject(s): Family Life; History DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear Last Line: Such rich provision made. Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord] Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DIFFICULTY OF RETURN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: When I first got back, %I thought people would Last Line: I carry on my tongue Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DIGGING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is barefooted in crisp frosty weather Last Line: The earth on his feet and the song in his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIGGING POTATOES, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: We divided it all, but Last Line: I've barely begun to ask Subject(s): Ranch Life DIGNITY OF LABOR, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genius of toil! Our verse indite / and blaze along each line! Last Line: To feed, and warm, and cheer, and bless the world. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Muses; Nature; Work; Workers DIKTYNNA THEA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We hunker by the fire Last Line: And a mouthful of feathers Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DILEMMA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever we do, whether we light Last Line: By being planted too close to our parents Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence DILEMMA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever we do, whether we light Last Line: By being planted too close to our parents Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DIMANCHE BLEU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): City & Town Life; Abandonment; Desertion DING REPAIR, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many waves Subject(s): California; Conduct Of Life; Surfing DINOSAUR HUNTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He sees them in the present tense Last Line: A hundred million years or so Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIPPING CANDLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-dipping candles used to be Last Line: Can turn no tastier trick today. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandchildren; Vermont; Relatives; Grandsons; Granddaughters DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Social Protest; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground Last Line: I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Social Protest DIRTY-BILLED FREEZE FOOTY, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Remember that saturday morning Last Line: Whenever she caught sight of you %it would start all over again Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Sisters DISAPPEARING GIRL, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What noise in her throat %another trick must be trapped there Last Line: The clapping's stopped, he's had %enough, he wants her now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL EXPLAINS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not so dark back here: voices Last Line: Clutching my pretty bird Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL RETURNS HOME, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: There's the tree I dared to drop me Last Line: Practicing my graceful exit? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S HOMEMADE MAGIC SHOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Mirror, mirror, am I silk Last Line: Begging as I go: silence, please Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S MOTHER REMEMBERS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: All knees and elbows, silly bird Last Line: My girl, thrown and twirling? Variant Title(s): Her Mother Remember Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPOINTED LOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once I courted a pretty little miss Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life DISCONTENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light human nature is too lightly tost Last Line: God's chartered judgments walk for evermore. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the great discoveries of my middle age Last Line: Its separate ghost Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cities; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Urban Life DISCOVERY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a long discovery, isn't it Last Line: That those who loved you best despised you most. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Cynicism; Life DISCOVERY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew what water really meant Last Line: Pounded in me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE Poem Text First Line: Crowded city streets I trod Last Line: Breathes of immortality. Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues DISCOVERY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plowing the nest of the lark Last Line: On many a nest of song Subject(s): Farm Life DISHWATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slap of the screen door, flat knock Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers DISILLUSIONED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We slumber in youth Last Line: Of glory divine? Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Youth; World DISPLAY CASE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I am small but not precious Last Line: Asked the glass, is this in or out? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISPOSSESSED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everything comes processed nowadays Last Line: Program. Compute. Respond by rote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISSOLUTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Again I am carried back over the indifferent liquid sea Last Line: Might have been my home, nor that well-loved face Subject(s): Death; Future Life DISSONANCES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the midst of music rare Last Line: They were a part of the melody. Subject(s): Air; Harps; Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres DISTANT FOOTSTEPS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father sleeps. His august expression Last Line: Down them, my heart travels on foot Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Parents DISTANT THUNDER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The distant thunder rolling down the skies Last Line: Our plenty crumbles and our food is dust Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIVERNE'S HOUSE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house of myth Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives DIVERNE'S HOUSE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house of myth Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life DIVERNE'S WALTZ, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne stands in the kitchen as they dance Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Relatives DIVERNE'S WALTZ, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diverne stands in the kitchen as they dance Last Line: Who knows? Next week, next month, I could be dead Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form DIVINATION SHOWED MY PLACE AMONG THESE BUNCHED CLIFFS, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Empty fame has no value Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Family Life - China; Zen Buddhism DIVINE AND HUMAN PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would the saints could hear our prayers Last Line: "as I was, so thou art." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Saints; Tears DIVINE LOVE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's something disturbing me Last Line: Whatever may be my lot, %from love I'll not retreat Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion DIVINE PLAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This grain of life, this tiny beast of dew Last Line: Pain fitted to his size. Subject(s): Life; Men DO NOT ASK, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Do not ask for whom they moo Last Line: The same earth, by the way, which one %fine day will melt into the sun Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life DO NOT FORGET, MY DEAR, THAT HE IS MINE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life DO NOT LOOK FOR WRONG AND EVIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DO NOT PASS ME BY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O life, do not pass me nby Last Line: O life, do not pass me by! Subject(s): Life DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I am not there - I do not sleep Subject(s): Life Change Events DO SOMETHING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the world seems cool to you Last Line: Blends with hope's bright river. Variant Title(s): Three Old Saws Subject(s): Life; Rainbows DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME?, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Do they miss me at home - do theee miss me? Last Line: The loved ones so dear at sweet home! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DO WHAT YOU CAN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors DOCUMENTAL, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's you and I be a camera Last Line: My tears, / my obsession Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Nicaragua; Modern Life; Poverty DOES HIS VOICE SOUND SME ECHO IN YOUR HEART, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quart of champagne, one pill too many Subject(s): Life Choices DOESN'T A DIFFERENCE MAKE FRIENDS TALK?, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: My dad watches a ball game Last Line: But isn't she messy? Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life DOG, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This night is monstrous winter winter when the rats Last Line: And where my name must be Subject(s): Dogs; City & Town Life DOG AT FULL MOON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The full moon stirs some memory in the dog Last Line: For worlds long - buried he has never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 1. OBEDIENCE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am the alpha male, %dispenser of her meat Last Line: Tumble her on her back %and bite her furry throat Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 1.obedienc Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 2. FIRST SPRING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Daily the flocks increase %as the floodwaters rise Last Line: She lifts her curious nose %to scent the impending rain Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 2.first Sprin Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 3. SKUNKED AGAIN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Flurries of hoarfrost fall %like silver maple leaves Last Line: From the last clump of reeds %bursts an indignant hen Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 3.skunked Agai Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 4. DOG HEAVEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Sprawled in the pickup box, %my old bitch is half-dead Last Line: And nine gutted pheasant cocks %pillow her dreaming head Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 4.dog Heave Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOGS, by ROBERT WINTHROP WATSON Poem Source First Line: I hear them bark outside my window, dogs Last Line: Unlock his gate. He looks long-eared and furry. %I hear him growl, snap his jaws. I bark back Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Dogs DOING LAUNDRY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Please, lord, no! Last Line: When son #2 was away in college! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina DOLPHIN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dolphin, you only guide me by surprise Subject(s): Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Conduct Of Life DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carl eaton and john campbell both were raised Last Line: In fairbanks, and the talk is in these words: Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Life; Love 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: ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What my name is, or where I live, or if Last Line: Of gregory wenner first: Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Undertakers; Educators; Professors DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: BARRETT BAYS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking by the river, barrett said Last Line: Came in and led him from the jury room. Subject(s): France; Life; Love; Past; War DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at that tract of land there -- five good acres Last Line: Of elenor murray: -- Subject(s): Life; Love; War; Youth DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray, daughter of henry murray Last Line: And know her better, knowing merival. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Hunting; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Hunters DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, coroner merival, look at this picture! Last Line: And reads this letter to the jurymen: Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul; Tears DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane fisher says to susan hamilton / that coroner has no excuse to bring Last Line: His talk with lawyer baker in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Law & Lawyers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see I worked for arthur fouche, he said Last Line: Spoke to them in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rev. Percy ferguson, patrician / vicar of christ, companion of the strong Last Line: The coroner and jury sat and heard: -- Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Life; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOMESDAY BOOK: THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the mortal facts / with which we deal? The man is thirty years Last Line: This the beginning of the mystery: -- Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight 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 CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merival, of a mother fair and good Last Line: Tells merival this story: Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Undertakers; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE GOVERNOR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? Last Line: To coroner merival on the street one day: Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Politics & Government; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves! Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To coroner merival, greetings, but a voice Last Line: To entertain his jury, in these words: Subject(s): Life; Nations; Religion; Soul; Theology DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when studying road atlases Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Away: let nought to love displeasing Last Line: And I'll go wooing in my boys Subject(s): Family Life;happiness;love - Marital; Relatives;joy;delight;wedded Love;marriage - Love DOMESTIC INTERIOR, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: A loose cannon always marries a wet blanket Last Line: Really, she still likes the macho stuff. He likes, he hates %her mouth Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage DOMESTIC LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The woman washing herself watched the team in harness Last Line: Whose grating cry %is lost in the light Subject(s): Household Employees; Life; Memory; Past; Women DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The DOMESTIC SURREALISM: THE LATE GUESTS, by BRUCE COHEN Poem Source First Line: Rattled from traffic & zombied from the prognosis, & me Last Line: Really, it's courageous & life affirming, but what else can you do? Subject(s): Family Life DOMICILES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: At the 310 bistro, we order snails and chew them slow. My father and I with Last Line: Lips shamelessly buttery, watches a blonde at the next table wiggle out of her coat Subject(s): Family Life; Food And Eating; Restaurants; Snails DON RAMIRO, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Donna clara! Donna clara! Last Line: "this day's noontide died ramiro." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Dead, The DON WILSON TOPPS CARD #217 1973, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: He had only one year left before Last Line: Did they place a better face above you? %one early pose for each unopened eye? Subject(s): Future Life; Idols; Suicide DON'T BE TOO PARTICULAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Never offend your wife! Subject(s): Children;honeymoons;life; Childhood DON'T MAKE LISTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Every day a new flower rises Last Line: Forget everything you know %and open Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DON'T TURN AWAY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Don't turn away %I know, I am no longer the young dancer Last Line: Tell me you are there Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life DOOMED TO KNOW NOT WINTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life Change Events DOORMAN, by PAMELA SUTTON Poem Source First Line: The doorman tries to hail a cab for me. He waves Last Line: For hours; that I will see this the rest of my life Subject(s): Cities; Life; Taxis DOORS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Doors; Conduct Of Life DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 3. YOUNG GIRL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear love, as simple as some distant call Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Theology DORIS ULLMANN, CONFINED TO BED BY ILLNESS (AGAIN)......, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: I have never been able to come to rest here Last Line: Like light and like the light %giving something back Subject(s): Biography; Life DORIS, YOU SAID, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: And as you wish so let it be Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DOROTHY Q; A FAMILY PORTRAIT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's mother: her age I guess Last Line: Through a second youth of a hundred years. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Quincy, Dorothy; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOTH THE HAWK FLY BY THY WIDOM, AND STRETCH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life DOUBLE AUTUMN, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: Better to close the book and say good-night Last Line: Than practise dumbly staring at your plight Subject(s): Life Change Events DOUBLE HELLAS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the ice the convulsions of Last Line: To walk the seastrand of sculpt and colored stones and shells Subject(s): Life DOUBLE LIFE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a fundamentalist minister. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Conduct Of Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOVE, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Don't we always seem to want to know that life Last Line: And water. We gather seeds. We sow seeds by hand for this greening erba Subject(s): Death; Life DOVES, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: My hands are two birds Last Line: When my hands saw you %they became transfixed %I'm afraid they'll go crazy %if they can't light on y Subject(s): Human Rights; Life DOWN IN WALHALLALAH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put flowers on leeda's grave Last Line: Down in walhallalah. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DOWN SUGAR LOAF BROOK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walking with the water down sugar loaf brook Last Line: We can't keep up with it Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, de ole plantation landin' Last Line: To de lonesomeness -- dat's all. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi River; Plantation Life; Rivers; Negroes; American Blacks DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolling earth stops Last Line: God, that were life! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Climbing; Earth; Life; World DOWNSTREAM, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: In that house across the field they accommodate god's will Last Line: The neighbor hoards the sin of ignorance. The believer lives downstream Subject(s): Farm Life DOXOLOGIA, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: What came before was something given up, an exchange of one for Last Line: Patches from the god who prays to us Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life DRAWING WATER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had drunk from founts of pleasure Last Line: With a golden chain of prayer. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Thirst; Water DREADFUL ORDER, by MONONOBE AKIMOCHI Poem Source Last Line: No wife being with me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of folly, dream thou ever Last Line: Vain laments no longer raise! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Youth; Nightmares DREAM, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You came to me when starry night Last Line: Twas only nothing but a dream! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DREAM AND LIFE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was glowing, my heart, too, glow'd Last Line: A nasty insect meets my sight. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Life; Tears; Nightmares DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DREAM CALLED LIFE, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream it was in which I found myself Last Line: When dreaming, with the night, shall pass %away Subject(s): Future Life DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM FEAST: 1. THE SLEEPER'S SONG, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The thrust of the dragon's tight bone Last Line: At certain times of the year, %the sea vomits blood Subject(s): Family Life; History DREAM FEAST: 2. THE DRAGON'S DREAM, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The dragon's dream fires tongues Last Line: When I look into them, I see myself %within a halo of dreams Subject(s): Family Life; History DREAM FEAST: 3. THE FEAST, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The sphinx, denied a voice Last Line: The crouching sphinx swallows my name. %at her smile, the feast begins Subject(s): Family Life; History DREAM LIFE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the world has ever been Last Line: That gossamer my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Life DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAM OF LOST CITIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A dream of cities Last Line: Waiting to be found Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people go their whole lives Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DREAM SONGS: 14, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Last Line: Into mountains or sea or sky, leaving %behind: me, wag Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Boredom; Life DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DREAMERS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It's an easy drift into their domain Last Line: Next to the nightlamp even now shining %through this starlight Subject(s): Family Life - India DREAMING, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Dreaming - dreaming, ever dreaming Last Line: To meet thee on some future day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DREAMING IN THE TRENCHES, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE Poem Text First Line: I picture her in the quaint old room Last Line: Petersburg trenches, 1'64. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics DREAMING OF LI PO, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Those whom death separates Last Line: And the dragons hungry Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DREAMS, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond, beyond the mountain line Last Line: Lies somewhere o'er their edges. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life DREAMS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares DREAMS AND DEEDS, by JOHN HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Dear master, in whose life I see Last Line: O thou whose deeds and dreams were on Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion DREAMS AND FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every moment in the gloaming Last Line: Halos all our sorrow. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Soul; Nightmares DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DREENA'S NOTEBOOK THAT MAKES PEOPLE LAUGH, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: My drawings come bright Last Line: He'd been really nasty to me Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life DREM OF FARMHOUSES, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: My shadow, penetrated by dwy pastures Last Line: I work like a bee in the hive of the spirit Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life DRIED OUT, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This place was the first home we ever had Last Line: We was to have! The roses by the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Agriculture; Farmers DRIFTER AND THE HOMEGUARD, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: You say you'd like for me to give a detailed dissertation Last Line: That the homeguard was a drifter 'fore the drifter settled down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DRIFTING, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My barque is on a stormy sea Last Line: When we cross o'er the river Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DRIFTING APART, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I know not how it is or why Last Line: I shall find truth so shall not care Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DRIFTWOOD FEELIN', by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: How much longer Last Line: I'm catchin' a ride %floatin' down love river Subject(s): Ranch Life DRIFTWOOD FOUND ON THE GREENBRIER TRAIL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Something to mark the day, you said, Last Line: Pulled over their eyes. Their mouths %set against weeping. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love DRILL, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: A protester shoves a pamphlet Last Line: You stare as if he were a sliver %you must throw into the furnace Subject(s): Commuters; Life DRINK DEEP, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: Drink deep of life as its illusive day Last Line: O may we still like gods be drinking deep! Subject(s): Life DRINK OF WATER AT THE SPRING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He kneels before the never - failing spring Last Line: And just as sure to find again the source Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Anything is better than this Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; War; Conduct Of Life; Wine DRINKING TIME, by DANIEL JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Two black heifers and a red Subject(s): Farm Life DRINKING WINE(3), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fall chrysanthemums have fine colors. Last Line: Go ahead, embrace this life Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Life; Nature; Solitude DRINKS IN THE TOWN SQUARE, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner had they carried their martinis Last Line: Fists in their pockets, daggers in their eyes Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; City & Town Life; Wine DRIVER, 1941 MODEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How long before cars reach the heights Last Line: And knew more than the car! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The creek flames and the stunted willows all Last Line: Black stands the barn against a flawless sky. Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers DRIVING INTO A STORM, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Last night we burned feed sacks Last Line: The dark %rolling clouds Variant Title(s): First Poem For Georg Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DROP BY DROP, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The dew heavily lay on the cedars so green Last Line: He works with a purpose - so mysteriously Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DROUGHT, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds shouldered a path up the mountains Last Line: Under the sky that deafened from listening for rain Subject(s): Farm Life DROUGHT HARVEST, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: I am the drought-tormented sod Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life DROUGHT OF SEVENTY-SEVEN, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It was dry in the fall of seventy-six Last Line: But she's never caused me half of the loss %that politicians create with a pen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DROUGHT YEAR, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I slept alone in a drought year Last Line: In crumbled soi, %wait for rain Subject(s): Drought; Ranch Life DROWNING IN GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything in. %nothing held back Last Line: I'm looking for a world %sky deep in water Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DRUM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy says the world is Last Line: I'm gonna beat %out my own rhythm Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life DRUNK, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: The churl swings his caloused hands against the city's Last Line: The churl smiles and staggers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DRUNKARD AND HIS DAUGHTER, OR PLEASE MR. BARKEEPER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Please, mr. Barkeeper, has father been here? Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Frontier And Pioneer Life DRUNKEN CAPTAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A fierce storm raged and black winds blew Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life DRUNKEN SAGE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: An old pine is entwined with vines Last Line: He sips a cup of vinegar Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DRUTHERS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between permission Subject(s): Life DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women are at home in this california town Subject(s): Women; California; Family Life DRY SPELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The summer pasture shrivels in the heat Last Line: The poor relations, blossom endlessly! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DU MUSST DEIN LEBEN ANDERN - RILKE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was once is still Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER Poem Text First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it Last Line: The ducks were building a nest. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory; Relatives DUH, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is silent and distant Last Line: From rolling over my head one day Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Memory DUMB ANIMALS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Ewes that bear full-sized well-formed lambs Last Line: Take a deep breath. Start over Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs DURING MUSIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tears that well up to my eyes Last Line: Too strange the hopes, too strange the fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Soul; Tears DURING THE FIRST THREE MINUTES OF LIFE, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: The piglet %sucks Last Line: Looks up %into the sun Subject(s): Farm Life DURING THE REVOLUTION, by SAMRAT UPADHYAY Poem Source First Line: The blood-soaked man sang songs Last Line: As they hurried home, but when they turned %no one was there Subject(s): Life; Revolutions DUST AND ASHES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Only dust and ashes left Last Line: Fate only sure - remains the same! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio DUTCH, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much of life / is dutch Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition DUTY TO TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good princes must be pray'd for: for the bad Last Line: To strike him dead, that but usurps a throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DWARF AND GIANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on through life's journey we go,day by day Last Line: "and dare for the right to say always, ""I can!" Subject(s): Human Behavior; Idleness; Life; Perseverance; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence DWELLING IN PEACE ON THE DOUBLE NINTH, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was dwelling in peace and loved the name 'double ninth.' Last Line: The quiet life has indeed many joys, %there is something achieved in just lingering on Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Life DYING ROUND THE HOLY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I am not forgiven, %nor will be Last Line: To spill %toward vastness? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life DYING SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O brother green, o come to me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife Last Line: It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Variant Title(s): Fire Of Life;the Dying Fire;the End;epigram;finis;introduction To The Last Fruit Off Old Tree;envoi;on His Seventy-fifth Birthday;farewell;on Himself Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Old Age; Dead, The EACH DAY A LIFE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I count each day a little life Last Line: I sleep to wake again Subject(s): Day; Life EACH ONE OF US CAN HELP IN THE GLORIOUS TASK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Will pass from age to age in fruitfulness and blessing Subject(s): Life Change Events EACH TIME I GO OUTSIDE THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is different. This has happened %all my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature EAMONN AN CHNUIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now who is without Last Line: Where strangers are kinder than kin! Subject(s): Country Life EARLY DAYS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've read the settlers, bless their souls Last Line: To borrow jest a carpet tack. Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Farm Life; Vermont; Loans; Agriculture; Farmers EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear air and grassy lea Subject(s): Country Life; Morning; Nature EARLY SPRING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come ye so early Last Line: Was I with my dear! Subject(s): Life; Muses; Spring EARLY, EARLY IN THE SPRING (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When so early in the spring Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life EARS IN THE TURRETS HEAR, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hold you poison or grapes? Subject(s): Life EARTH CLOSET, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not much bigger than a dollhouse raised Last Line: The watchman's box is left %its closeness inside the weather Subject(s): Farm Life EARTH DWELLER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all the clods at once become Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EARTH DWELLER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all the clods at once become Last Line: The world speaks everything to us. %it is our only friend Subject(s): Farm Life EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH LIKE A MOTHER, by ETHEL JOHNSTON MCNAUGHT Poem Source First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTH TEDIUM, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If part of earth, I am a sullen part Last Line: And in all fruitfulness there lurks a pain. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH'S PREFERENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth loves her young: a preference manifest Last Line: Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES Poem Text First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth! Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH-TILLER, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: So where does he turn Last Line: & nose through hard shale %into the secrets of coffins Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTH-WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into the grass I fain would grow Last Line: New leaves to hymn thy praise! Subject(s): Earth; Grass; Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Praise; Worship; World EARTHBOUND, by CELIA A. VAN COTT Poem Text First Line: I love this world. I do not want to know Last Line: To know the last of life's sweet melody! Subject(s): Life EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Last Line: This deathless, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, marcus aurelius, weve come to see Last Line: Ts tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Middle Age; Aging; Libya; Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Mythology; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That bummy smell you meet Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life EAST SIXTY-FIFTH, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erotic cannibals, we eat up Subject(s): City & Town Life EASTER SUNDAY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Driving to the mountains at noon Last Line: Family together %give thanks %we eat now Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Easter; Family Life; Food And Eating; Holidays; Native Americans; Togetherness EASTERN EAGLE FACED WOMAN, by PEGGY O'CONNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life EBB AND FLOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said earth in the darkness wailing Last Line: So life ebbs and flows forever, pulsing with the heart of god!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Dead, The EBENEZER-GRAMS: 1. EBENEZER'S PROBLEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With unkel eben weepin' Last Line: And learn him how ter fly! Subject(s): Death Valley; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 32. RURAL CEREMONY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closing the sacred book which long has fed Last Line: And hooker's voice the spectacle approves! Subject(s): Country Life; Sacraments ECHOES OF JOY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a song of joy Last Line: Wind-blown over the heather. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Joy; Delight ECHOES: 33, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ways are green with the gladdening sheen Last Line: Know life's a dream worth dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Life ECHOES: 34, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life in her creaking shoes Last Line: Love blows into the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Life ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ECHOES: 6, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise the generous gods for giving Last Line: Shine the equal of their own. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Life ECHOES: 9, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam life's a piece in bloom Last Line: And your little job is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): To W.r. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ECLIPSE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Above us the table of night Last Line: On the night of your thirtieth year Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland ECLOGUE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane sneed began it: my poor john, alas! Last Line: Beneath ground as above. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ECLOGUE, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea; but no man is still Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 1, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tityrus, there you lie in the beech-tree shade Last Line: Already there's smoke you can see from the neighbors' chimneys %and the shadows of the hills are len Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 10, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Help me, arethusa, to complete %this my last task, a song to sing for gallus Last Line: Go home, my full-fed goats, you've eaten your fill %the evening star is rising; it's time to go home Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 2, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Corydon fell in love with a beautiful boy Last Line: Binding the twigs together with pliant rushes %there'll be another alexis, if this one rejects you Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 3, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose flock is this? Is it meliboeus's flock? Last Line: But the time has come to close the sluices, boys %for now the fields have drunk their fill of song Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 4, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian muses, sing we greater things Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 4, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian muses, sing a nobler music %for orchard trees and humble tamarisks Last Line: No gods will welcome at their festive table %nor any goddess to her amorous bower Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 5. MENALCAS, MOPSUS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mopsus, let us sit down together here Last Line: Refused, though then he deserved my love. The knots %are evenly spaced, the rings are brass, menalca Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 6, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I began to write, my muse did not Last Line: Time to be counted, and time for him to set out %over a sky reluctant to yield the day Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 7, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All underneath a tall straight holme, whyleere Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 7, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daphnis, one day, was sitting in the shade Last Line: Striving to win, was the loser, and since that time %it has been corydon's, corydon's name we cry Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 8, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The muse of the shepherds alphesiboeus and damon Last Line: Can I believe it, or is it that lovers dream? %cease now, my charms, my daphnis has come home! Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 9, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moeris, why are you taking the path to town? Last Line: No more of that; let's just go on our way %the time for singing will be when menalcas comes Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ECLOGUE: 2, by GIOVANNU BATTISTA SPAGNUOLI Poem Source First Line: A shepherd, whom thou knowst full wed, to make it playne in sight Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye? Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECLOGUE: TWO FARMS IN WOONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll lose your measter soon, then, I do vind Last Line: Why then we sartainly must starve. Good night! Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers ECLOGUES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Where I lived the river %lay like a blue wrist Last Line: Itself for warmth & the windows %go white with frost Subject(s): Farm Life ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each perfect rose that unfolded yesterday Last Line: They think, here they stuggle, here they love Subject(s): Creation; Life; Nature; Spain EDEN-STRANGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Things move and change and take on varying shapes Last Line: It's eden - strange Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EDGE OF FALL, by JUDY NACCA Poem Source First Line: The squirrels looked up from their foraging Last Line: Said the scythe to the meadow erupting with butterflies Subject(s): Farm Life EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh! Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day! Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips EDUCATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts fall neatly into patterns now Last Line: Like toads and diamonds in a fairy tale Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EDWIN A. NELMS, by SHERYL LYNNE NELMS Poem Source First Line: The quick flick of a smile Subject(s): Family Life EFFIE'S REASONS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, effie, while you are sitting Last Line: "just because I love him so!" Subject(s): Brothers; Likes & Dislikes; Family Life EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EGG AND DAUGHTER NIGHT, APRIL 1951, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much of the soil out here has been sown by wind Last Line: The wind unwinds in the truck-thick streets Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life EGGS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning broke like an egg Subject(s): Eggs; Conduct Of Life EGLOGA TERTIA, SELS., by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant place is here to talke: good coridon begyn Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Country Life EGLOGUE INTITULED CUDDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A litle heard-groome (for he was no bett') Subject(s): Country Life EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!" Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime EIGHT POEMS ON EASTERN SLOPE: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An abandoned fort for which no one cared Last Line: But of a bucket of water I am assured Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Farm Life EIGHT RABBITS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Eight rabbits hang skinned in pale spring sun. Old Last Line: Questioning everything, even my rabbits, cold in the sunshine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EIGHTY YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is left behind him quite Last Line: Else we had lost him utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Old Age; Spiritual Life; Dead, The EIGHTY-EIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A black calf bleats Last Line: While the pastures burn Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark inheritor of woe Last Line: Of saints, with fairies in loud antiphon. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, the disconsolate Last Line: Melusine's cries against the moaning of the saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL KHALIL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no chieftain, fit to lead Last Line: Yet in their hearts I rule, a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sin EL VUELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close your eyes, now -- we go Last Line: To a silvery hand ahead, / the feminine dome Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ELEGY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss Last Line: Think what a lovely time they had! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY A LITTLE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Linoleum and half a dozen eggs Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters; Relatives ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY FOR BELLS, by SARAH HANNAH GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember the sound of the old phone ringing? Last Line: The pain in it ringing, %and in it ringing no longer Subject(s): Absence; Bells; Family Life; Telephones ELEGY FOR DIKTYNNA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Go if you must and swim %the dim waters of acheron %for actaeon Last Line: Passes to someone else's son %I'll whistle 'come' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ELEGY IN A THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE, by KENNETH FEARING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have laid the penthouse scenes away, after a truly phenomenal run Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ELEGY WITH A CHIMNEYSWEEP FALLING INSIDE IT, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboard Subject(s): Transience; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY WRITTEN ON A FRONTPORCH, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun burns on its sultry wick Last Line: She turned her back upon the day %but will not lie at night alone Subject(s): Life ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this moment when the light starts up Last Line: And nothing will heal %under the rain's broken fingers Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FOG, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you go to your window Last Line: There should be no reason to believe %I lived Subject(s): Farm Life; Fog; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves Last Line: The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt %and there will be no reason for pockets Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk the first stars appear Last Line: And an orange moon rises %to lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Stars ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Last Line: In a most of blond locusts, %returning to the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Last Line: And I take on another life Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when some great and gracious monarch dies Last Line: For thou shalt make it live, because it sings of thee. Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Soul; Dead, The ELEPHANTS IN ASHEBORO, by DAPHNE ATHAS Poem Source First Line: Asheboro is the place our elephants live Last Line: Come out, come out, whoever you are. %come out and meet the rising wind of death.' Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Life ELEVATED, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years the butcher shop Subject(s): City & Town Life; Time ELEVEN SHORT SCENES FROM MY LIFE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: There, sick in my bed in early june, an Last Line: Forever without ending Subject(s): Life; Self ELKHORN CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O elkhorn city, little town! Last Line: Around and over you. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Urban Life ELLEN, by RIC MASTEN Poem Source First Line: My youngest daughter Last Line: My youngest daughter likes to do this %is it one of the few times %she has my full attention Subject(s): Family Life ELLEN MIDDLETON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise me; undraw the curtain; that is well Last Line: Whose faith was hidden and whose love was vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed ELMER BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awf'lest boy in this-here town Last Line: "here's the way you look!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Family Life; Towns; Relatives ELOISE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I did it %I winked at eloise Last Line: This call for another wink %tomorrow Subject(s): Country Life ELOPEMENT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out at the home of my mary Last Line: Well -- none of the family is there. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Elopements; Family Life; Relatives ELSEWHERE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't italy where even / the dust is sexual, and I am not Last Line: The woman she becomes, who could not or would not save her Subject(s): Life; Survival ELSEWHERE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't italy where even %the dust is sexual, and I am not Last Line: The woman she becomes, who could not %or would not save her Subject(s): Life; Survival ELYSIAN, by JOHN PALMER Poem Source First Line: The sun at four's still dead overhead Last Line: Direct the quick way through diesel air Subject(s): Life EMBARKATION, 1942, by JOHN JARMAIN Poem Source First Line: In undetected trains we left our land Last Line: Waved to the workmen on the slipping quay %and they again to us for fellowship Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii EMERGENCY HAYING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Coming home with the last load I ride standing Last Line: To the fields where they can only die Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers EMERGENCY MUSIC, by S. P. HEALEY Poem Source First Line: Tell me if you've given birth Last Line: We breathe and mistake ourselves %for students of breath Subject(s): Life; Music And Musicians EMERSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say? In quietude Last Line: Our silence, best applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Grief; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EMILIA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway up the hemlock valley turnpike Last Line: Deep in fancies of a fairy bride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers EMMA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stands as firm as a tree stem Last Line: After life comes death at last. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Pity; Dead, The EMPIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the glorious ocean breaking Last Line: That hast earth, stars, sea, sun and all! Subject(s): Nature; Life EMPTY BARN, DEAD FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Houses are incidents, barns four-square and real Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EMPTY CUP, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Time took her yough and scored her house Subject(s): Farm Life EMPTY FORMS, by CRAIG BURNETT Poem Source First Line: The phone call you had been waiting for came Last Line: Residue, look at my hair and wait. Soon, it will dry Subject(s): Life EMPTY NEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sedate the house and quiet now Last Line: I think that I could work Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ENCODED DITHYRAMB, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits on the bridge rail at midnight, watching Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Modern Life; Rivers ENCOUNTER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Can you imagine that I, a landlord's son Last Line: My feet, entangled with the sedge roots, %sinking deep into the oozy mud Subject(s): Family Life - China END AND BEGINNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The world of the elder gods is aflame. The smoke of its burning Last Line: Baldur the beautiful, rise! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life END OF KOMACHI: 1. COURT ROMANCE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Her unnamed lover Last Line: Standing outside the door, waiting Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 2. NIGHT ECHOES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Plum blossoms, mottled silver Last Line: Moon woman blushing Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 3. OFFERING INCENSE AT THE TEMPLE DOOR, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of pinecone and spice Last Line: Will the gods attend? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF KOMACHI: 4. CRANE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Old skin-and-bones in clay hut Last Line: Crane dancing in moonlight Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Last Line: Order their populations forth, %and a cruel wind blows Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry And Poets END OF THE WORLD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ENDURANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ENEMIES OF ENORMITY, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in bern Subject(s): Prostheses; Legs; Cosmetics; Conduct Of Life ENERGY IN ADVERSITY, by LUELLA J. CASE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onward! Hath earth's ceaseless change Last Line: Strength and healing on their wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Bartlett, Luella Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ENFLEURAGE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from a water lily, periplum Last Line: Unconsciously - and, white birds casting a dark shadow, fly out of themselves. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ENGINE WORK, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: The afternoon rinsed in the scent Last Line: To fire the lonely engine of the heart Subject(s): Automobiles - Maintenance And Repair; Family Life; Photography And Photographers ENGINEER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The small boy, intent, with pants rolled knee high Last Line: The creek went on talking. It would have the last %word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ENGLAND'S HELICON: THIRSIS' PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a hill that graced the plain Last Line: Astra can bless those blessings, earth and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life ENGLISH VILLAGE, by WILLIAM COBBETT Poem Source First Line: The houses of the village are, in great ... Subject(s): Country Life ENIGMA (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By birth I'm a slave, yet can give you a crown Last Line: Sink when it rains, and when it freezes swim. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Life; Love; Slavery; Serfs ENLIGHTMENT!, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have the scales that dimm'd thy vision Last Line: To digest in peace thy food. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Belief; Creed; Michael, Saint ENOUGH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Holding nothing, your stomach Last Line: Sequin, you grow exquisite Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: Of the pattern of our lives Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships ENTRY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not from saying names Last Line: Bleeds darkness %before its final flare Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ENVY; A FRAGMENT, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye pleasing dreams of heavenly poesy Last Line: But transient still and vain are envy's wretched joys. Subject(s): Envy; False Accusations; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPHEMERAL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Life itself. 'brief' as a new bride's flat stomach Last Line: That's the trouble. %I never lose the argument Subject(s): Friendship; Life EPIGRAM, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buildings of capital, the hives of the killer bees Last Line: And flew when no one was looking. He had to have his life again Subject(s): Life EPIGRAM, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buildings of capital, the hives of the killer bees Last Line: And flew when no-one was looking. He had to live his life again Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Life EPIGRAM: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss Last Line: The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 44 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life EPIGRAM: 11, 18. TO LUPUS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me a farm - so you called it, at least Last Line: To swap farm for a thirty-cent meal Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Farm Life EPIGRAM: 12, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in thy sight my life doth whole depend Last Line: I with thy sight, thou also with my smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 13, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For shamefast harm of great and hateful need Last Line: Of that he found he shaped his neck a knot. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Life EPIGRAM: 18. THE ENEMY OF LIFE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy of life, decayer of all kind Last Line: And drove the first dart deeper more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Enemy Of Life Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Life; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88 Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In court to serve decked with fresh array Last Line: In prison joys, fetter'd with chains of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPIGRAM: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest fast and I with woeful heart Last Line: Thou dreamest still which way my life to waste. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Sleep EPIGRAM: 47, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see my plaint with open ears Last Line: Is that I see myself alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Tears EPIGRAM: 5, 20. AD MARTIALEM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God knows, my martial, if we two could be Last Line: "another gone: o when will ye arise?" Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Liberty EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Graves they say are warm'd by glory Last Line: Such as homer sang is zero. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Graves; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones EPILOGUE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, when all is said and done Last Line: "only traced upon the foam." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far Last Line: While you have still your oats, and we our hains. Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The 'pilgrim,' Revived Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; English; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New ministers, when first they get in place Last Line: But first vote money, then redress at leasure. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Attorneys; Dramatists; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die Last Line: And women fight, like swizzers, for their pay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA BY THE SPANIARDS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success, which can no more than beauty last Last Line: He had pleas'd better, had he lov'd you less. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 2 Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Success; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gartmore friends a blessing on ye Last Line: And just does nothing all the day!' Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care Last Line: Look sow'r, and hum a tune -- as you may now. Variant Title(s): Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town;to A Young Lady On Her Leaving The Town Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Separation; Isolation; Urban Life EPISTLE TO THE LORD HENRY HOWARD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise, if it be not choice, and laid aright Last Line: And though it hath not hap, it shall have fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Henry (1540-1614); Praise; Truth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPITAHPHIUM CAECILLIAE BOULSTRED, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks death like one laughing lies Last Line: And did not die, but left her body dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never cared for life: life cared for me Last Line: "nor sought in me much more than thou couldst find." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Work; Workers EPITAPH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were no hidden motives to his life Last Line: As I have forgiven you / my sins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Sin; Forgiveness EPITAPH, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: She never shook the stars from their appointed courses Last Line: And she rode good horses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITHALAMION, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Singing, today I married my white girl Last Line: Flower and bird and wind and world, %and all the living and all the dead Subject(s): Life Change Events EPODE: 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy in his low degree Last Line: And put it out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2, SELS., by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With such delights he can forget Last Line: The full extent of rural cares Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2. HAPPY IS THE COUNTRYMAN, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy's that man that is from city care Last Line: I' th' kalends put it forth again Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2. THE HAPPY LIFE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed man! Who, homely bred Last Line: Thus would I live, thus would I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life EPODE: 2. THE PRAISES OF A COUNTRY LIFE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is he, that from all business clear Last Line: At the calends, puts all out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPOLOGUE (TO THE LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Since you decreed / that each hour of my life Last Line: Let death, when due, come swift! Subject(s): Life EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism ERBACCIA, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Especially overwhelmed by weeds Last Line: Black hands of the father, of the fabbro Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ERNIE'S WISH, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was 11 my Last Line: The joyful pride I %felt left me Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Hunting ESCAPE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We saw a doe at friendly dusk Last Line: The soul a breathing space Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ESCAPE, by LISA QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Each afternoon, the sun catches her eye and leads her Last Line: She looks at him with a used up sadness in her eyes, then %smiles, knowing tomorrow the sun will hol Subject(s): Ranch Life ESCHATOLOGY: MICHEL FOUCAULT, 1926-1984, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Like the tile-work spread beneath his feet Last Line: Carried him from this world into the next Subject(s): Life ESPILUS AND THERION, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune up my voyce, a higher note I yeeld Subject(s): Country Life ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ESSENTIAL MEDICINE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In temples, palaces, museums Last Line: And bird melodies on a cool spring morning Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ESTHER: 19, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the story of my birth, the name Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Fthers; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Dead, The ET TU BRUTE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A painted mummer strikes a temple gong Last Line: Truly, caesar, the arm of rome is long Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love ETERNAL LOVE, by JOHN LA CORTE Poem Source First Line: We both knew it was time for you to go Last Line: Close to my heart again Subject(s): Life Change Events ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yeares! And age! Farewell Last Line: Drown'd in one endlesse day. Variant Title(s): Eternity Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY Poem Text First Line: Enough for me to realize Last Line: Through deathless time's eternal range. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Reincarnation; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Transmigration; Pretas ETERNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this wondrous sea Last Line: Ashore at last! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a weary while it is to stand Last Line: Or any crumb of gloom to feed upon? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can almost taste it Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can almost taste it Last Line: In the shape of a butte, air surrounding it, whistling in the sockets Subject(s): Future Life ETERNITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: As time's sure pendulum swings to and fro Last Line: "eternity,"" in muffled song or cry." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: At the edge of the sea lay a skull Last Line: Eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY BLUES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just had the old dodge in the shop Last Line: To reach me. I drove on. Then I bust out crying Subject(s): Blues (mood); Country Life; Music & Musicians ETERNITY MISSED, by JOHN E. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: I stepped on the done Last Line: The beauty that is %while I look away Subject(s): Future Life EUPHORON, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, fold your arms, beloved friends Last Line: Till grief shall clasp the hand of joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EUTHANASIA, by EDWARD WINSHIP Poem Text First Line: Beyond the far horizon, many - hilled Last Line: As weary winter lays him down to die? Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Old Age; Winter; Dead, The EVANESCENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing ships! Passing ships! Last Line: Must daily mourn some vanished hand. Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping EVASION, by LEONA JOLLEY Poem Text First Line: The realities of life Last Line: They lurk beneath the shade. Subject(s): Life; Reality EVELYN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She lived at home up on the mountain side Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life EVEN AS A DRAGON'S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While hearts and voices in the song unite Subject(s): Family Life; Mountains EVEN AS NIGHT DARKENS THE GREEN EARTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: That you may wake past day, past death Subject(s): Life Change Events EVEN THE LIGHT HAS DARKENED, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: Where once fished the hand, tools of memory Last Line: Are scattered throughout the room Subject(s): Quiet Life EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds EVENING, FOUR MILE, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: Incredible, the softness of this air Last Line: Through all the lovely evening and the dark Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EVENING, STARY SACZ, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets behind the market square, and the nettle leaves reflect Subject(s): City & Town Life EVENSONG, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song is of no importance Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain. Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If moral virtue was christianity %christ's pretensions were all vanity Last Line: Both read the bible day & night, %but thou read'st black where I read white Variant Title(s): The New La Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity EVERY NIGHT I KILL MYSELF A LITTLE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: And if we mourn when something living dies, %we aren't so sad when what has died lives Subject(s): Human Rights; Life EVERY TIME I ROLL UP TOWELS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Every time I put away towels Last Line: Or wilt lettuce, I remember Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EVERYBODY AND HIS UNCLE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was waiting to happen. Subject(s): Family Life; Driving & Drivers; Relatives EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't such a bad thing Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN GET YOU TAKE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It's that kind of day Last Line: You can get you take Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life EVERYTHING'S A FAKE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage and rosemary, now Last Line: But a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary; California EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this all life is then Last Line: Everything were under water. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness EVICTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New gray hairs are adorning my venerable Last Line: Alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Modesty; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers EVICTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time shut the door and turned the key Last Line: With the immortal past. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Time EVOCATION, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: From the deep mystery of the past I called her Last Line: Thus I made answer. And she kissed my lips Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Graves EVOLUTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dusk a shadow Last Line: Life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events EX AETATE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for more hours of bliss I make demand Last Line: Of sunshine, certain memory of them. Subject(s): Life; Summer EX NIHILO, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of nothing we are made Last Line: The incarnation that we live. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Tears; Theology EXAMINED LIFE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Thoughts raced through goldin's mind like orbiting electrons Last Line: Blanketing its charge while shrinking from its surface Subject(s): Life EXAMPLES, OR LIKE PRINCE, LIKE PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Examples lead us, and wee likely see Last Line: Such as the prince is, will his people be. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EXCEEDING ALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life's a lovely thing to know Last Line: The loveliness of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Health; Life; Youth EXCELSIOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shades of night were falling fast Last Line: Excelsior! Subject(s): Life; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland EXCEPT TO HEAVEN, SHE IS NOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That made existence home! Subject(s): Life EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul selects her own society Last Line: Like stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness EXILE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How well he knew the geography of the land Last Line: Like ranks of firewood he had helped to stack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXIT NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghastly contrast, god's grim joke! Last Line: Is wiped out in city mud. Subject(s): Suicide; Labor & Laborers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes EXMOOR VERSES: 2. SATURN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my farm, from her farm Last Line: The planet saturn burned. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Farm Life; Kisses; Agriculture; Farmers EXPATRIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City towers that have prisoned me Last Line: It will not be a dream! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life EXPECT NOTHING, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Expect nothing. Live frugally Subject(s): Conduct Of Life EXPECTATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's three daughters stood on ... Terrace Last Line: "is the loneliest depth of human pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Life; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery EXPEDITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ants came marching in perfect order Last Line: They'll send another expedition tomorrow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPERIENCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Poets may sing their plaintive wails Last Line: As the story read at a single look / at the stubs in a college-man's old bank-book Subject(s): Banks And Banking;life EXPERIENCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young, I wrote of death Last Line: I wept, and could not say his name Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPLORATIONS: 2. BRONCHITIS: THE ROSARIO BEACH HOUSE, by ALEIDA RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: At dawn - the sea monster slept Last Line: The house trembled with my coughs %and the breaths of my phantoms at night Subject(s): Family Life EXPLORER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The magpie explores the cowdung Last Line: In the land of forever young. Subject(s): Country Life; Youth EXPLOSION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: If life is love, blessed be it! Last Line: My whole life is a month in bloom! Subject(s): Desire; Happiness; Hearts; Life EXPULSION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Six weeks of drought Last Line: With an iron brand %singeing his hands Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality EXTENDED FAMILY, by JANICE LOWE Poem Source First Line: No one notices the man wiggling like jelly at the front door Last Line: No lie %damn skippy Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers EXTENDED FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so fat my kids couldn't wrap their arms around Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives EXTENDED FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so fat my kids couldn't wrap their arms around Last Line: Alcoholic who'd stand half-naked at the window when grandfather shoveled Subject(s): Family Life EYES LIKE LEEKS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It had almost nothing to do with sex. Subject(s): Autism; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life EYES OF SOON CHILDREN, by HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: How does my father Last Line: And name him as one of us Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers F.M. 168, BUFFALO LAKE TO NAZARETH, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: This road lay like an invitation, south Last Line: Knew one another well in that life %where journey and destination were the same Subject(s): Ranch Life; Roads FABLE OF A THREE YEAR OLD, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: A hole is something you make to grow Last Line: Cuz I don't tell him %where I hid his baseball bat Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF HEARTS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Our daddy isn't tall, %our mom is taller Last Line: We can hide in it %until they find us Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF THE COARSE ROSE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The path of the rose was uncharted Last Line: And buried next to frankenstein Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF THE TALKER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: He was born while the oracles %withered in their tongues Last Line: When he heard that, he laughed, %wrapped himself in silence and set a trap Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All wise philosophers maintain Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!' Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN: TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, JOHN DRIDEN, OF, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest is he who leads a country life Last Line: Earth keeps the body, verse preserves the fame Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Kinsman John Dryden, Of Chesterton; To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dride Subject(s): Country Life; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Poetry And Poets; Politics FABLES: 1ST SER. 33. THE COURTIER AND PROTEUS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er a courtier's out of place Last Line: And never forc'd to leave his lyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FABRIQUE OF THINGS SPENT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All must have beauty, else they pine and die Last Line: The lovely semblance when ye say 'tis flown! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long weeks I walked the city's crowded ways Last Line: I meet you, face to face! Subject(s): Cities; Faces; God; Urban Life FACES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: In the life of a crowded city Last Line: In the life of the crowded street. Subject(s): Faces; Humanity; Life FACES AT THE FIRST FARMWORKERS' CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, by JOSE MONTOYA Poem Source First Line: Just the other day Last Line: For history %and forever Subject(s): Farm Life FACTS OF LIFE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: My father, teetotaler, vegetarian, %took two baths a day Last Line: Come to celebrate shiva's victory %over one demon or another Subject(s): Family Life - India FACTS OF LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Valerie is not in class again today. As we open our books she is outside Last Line: Facts of life. And I am learning them as well Subject(s): Life; Youth FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FAILURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the lord, who fashioned my hands for working" Last Line: Maybe will pity their strife and loss Subject(s): Failure;life FAILURE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Tractor and combine axle-deep in muck Last Line: He cannot wholly blame the early snows Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAILURE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them that on the mountain fight beneath Last Line: Unvigilant, unwounded; they but sheep! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Tears; Nightmares FAILURES IN INFINITIVES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FAILURES OF PROMISE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A flock of crows Last Line: Buried the standing corn Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAINT THUNDER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Once I was a hunter Last Line: Better he than I Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAINT YET PURSUING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this shadow and this turbulent sea Last Line: My heart fails, yet I follow on to know Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea; Persistence; Conduct Of Life FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faith of years is broken Last Line: Once bound my soul to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Women; Belief; Creed; Destiny FAIR PRIME OF LIFE! WERE IT ENOUGH TO GILD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of grateful memory, bid that joy depart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FAIRIES AND FLOWERS, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: It was in the month of november Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life FAIRIES' SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North and south and east and west Last Line: Seeking still some work to do. Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Elves FAITH, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I do not know when I shall go on - on Last Line: Reveals a paradise that gave it birth? Subject(s): Future Life; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that was mine - I have loved it, and loved it both true and well Last Line: The soul that was mine will live on, and measure its life by its love. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deader they die here, or at least Last Line: I touch the hand there on the pillow Subject(s): Vermont; Country Life; Autumn FALL JOURNEY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives FALL JOURNEY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Last Line: And then I stopped: my father's eyes were gray Subject(s): Family Life; Memory FALL OF EIFFEL TOWER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This is an ad which illustrates %how to bring over there over here Last Line: Hello, am I reaching someone there Subject(s): Family Life - India FALL RIVER, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball; Family Life; Anger; Relatives FALLEN CITIES, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gathered with a careless hand Last Line: By silent hill and idle bay! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree! Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods FALLING, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Nature; Birds FALLING SNOW: A SONG, by LU ZHAO-LIN Poem Source First Line: At autumn's end nomad horsemen break through Last Line: And the son of heaven does not know their names Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Snow FAME, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Mockery is bitter %as arthritis to a knitter Last Line: Knit for eternity. %drink in anonymity Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a dream, I saw a man Last Line: Who signs his nom de plume, the end Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Reputation; Paradise FAMILIAL, by JACQUES PREVERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mother does knitting Last Line: Life with the graveyard Subject(s): Family Life; War FAMILIAR STORY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everyone speaks in affirmations Last Line: To the dust scattering below Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life FAMILIAR THINGS HAVE STRENGTH TO BRACE THE, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life FAMILIES, FAMILIES, by DOROTHY S. STRICKLAND Poem Source Last Line: Caring and sharing, %and loving you Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life FAMILY, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: A child who always gets his way decides he wants to trade places with the Last Line: Stoop for the son who disappeared into the night Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Family Life FAMILY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Charter's father invites family to lunch when he has something Last Line: Visit by visit, jose widens his world to include these woods, these people, our lives Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Grandchildren FAMILY, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Elder sister, %who is coming, in the loft? Last Line: We are all here Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters FAMILY BIBLE, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: They would leave nothing to chance Last Line: Filling up with family names Subject(s): Bible; Family Life FAMILY BIBLE, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: I didn't know him long Last Line: From the family bible Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Holidays FAMILY CARES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I have but one child-cora ann Last Line: That, really, I should like to know. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; January; Mothers; Childhood; Relatives FAMILY COURT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One would be in less danger Last Line: Were more fun to be with Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY CUPS, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: I place two cups beside each other Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY DYNAMICS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Their five year old city grandson Last Line: And come to you in summer.' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina FAMILY EVENING, by DANIEL HUWS Poem Source First Line: With banked fire to mark the occasion Last Line: Whereafter none may part but be %the rat leaving a sinking ship Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY GATHERING, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: This park %with its over-bright floating tree-tops Last Line: But the movement in what he says %is another word for freedom Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Photography And Photographers FAMILY GROUP, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives FAMILY LAUGH, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: On my way from the kitchen to the living room Last Line: It baffled the animals, but god saw that it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Laughter FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Among trees %my father was a spruce Last Line: Taking up the city and losing at cards Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY PORTRAIT, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, this family portrait Last Line: Travelling through the flesh Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling; Relatives FAMILY PORTRAIT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Last Line: Candles dripping slowly down on his stiff, dark clothes Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling FAMILY PORTRAIT, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Filled with water Last Line: The night is quietly %beginning to dawn Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY QUARRELS; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fool,' said jeanette, 'is a creature I hate' Last Line: "to be found in a family quarrel!" Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives FAMILY REUNION, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside in the street I hear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Reunions; Family Life; Relatives FAMILY ROMANCE, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held still Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Failure; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FAMILY SAGA, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Sherman's army was going to cross Last Line: The enemy where they were Subject(s): Family Life FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women; Relatives FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Last Line: Deep in the icing, a few still burning Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women FAMOUS MAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Fluttered across his face Last Line: Of his father. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Parents; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives; Parenthood FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er mountain and valley Last Line: By healing its sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness FANTASY, FROM 'AN ADJUSTABLE LUNATIC', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beneath a summer moon Last Line: Through life and all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Life; Moon; Soul; Summer FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good Last Line: Lover no children no poetry Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FAR BUGLES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road bent round a cliff Last Line: Taking, and leaving, the old, imponderable load. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I'd like to go Last Line: And say, now, how does it seem to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 7. GLORIA MUNDI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So knowing, / what is known? Last Line: In one life. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion FARE WELL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie where shades of darkness Last Line: In other days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The FAREWELL, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to thee! But not farewell Last Line: Nothing destroyed that thou hast done Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Life Change Events FAREWELL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell dear friends %I loved you so much Last Line: Farewell all fair universes %in far places Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Life Change Events FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Olivia is dying. Bring your best black dress Last Line: Its spring and slams. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Property; Dead, The; Relatives; Possessions FAREWELL TO LOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once the life that ran in my veins was stronger Last Line: Losing ronsard now. Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Love; Parting FAREWELL TO THE FARM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coach is at the door at last Last Line: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 40 Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FAREWELL, LOVELY POLLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In cornish I was born, not of a low degree Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life FARM, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calves with blue cloudy eyes Last Line: Of the world, a manuka nut in the sun's gaze Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Farm Life FARM AUCTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just yesterday, they started keeping house Last Line: More than a farm, when they bid in his land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FARM CART, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cart that carries hay Last Line: But never have it borne, my lass, %so sweet a load as you Subject(s): Farm Life FARM CHILD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this village boy, his head is stuffed Last Line: Earth breeds and beckons to the stubborn plough Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Youth FARM FAMILIES: 1, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snug - the robe sewn from coarse cotton Last Line: Farm families have joys of their own, %not in a class with those of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Farm Life FARM FAMILIES: 2, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's late, the children come home from school Last Line: We don't ask you to become rich and famous, %but when the time comes, work hard in the fields! Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Farm Life FARM HOME BY CU-LAI MOUNTAIN, by WANG SHIH-CHEN Poem Source First Line: On I go through empty azure mist Last Line: Nor will I be slow to plow my own Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Farm Life FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say good-bye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota FARM LABOURER, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: God, am I not dead yet? Said ward, his ear Last Line: And a lark flashed its needle down the west Subject(s): Farm Life FARM LIFE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the farmers' shacks Last Line: Times have changed—and every change seems always for the best! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM MOTHER, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: Folks said that marthy'd never lived Last Line: Of small red feet upon the stairs . . . Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers FARM NIGHT, by SANDS-ROUX Poem Text First Line: Now, silence resting on the silvered hill Last Line: A thought which has a word that all may learn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Silence; Agriculture; Farmers FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Last Line: Pacing toward what I know Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER Poem Text First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home. Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FARM WIDOW, by JESSIE HOLT Poem Text First Line: The green grain mocks me Last Line: By lantern light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Widows & Widowers; Agriculture; Farmers FARM WIFE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is the clean apron, good for fire Last Line: Where men may come, sons and lovers, %daring the cold seas of her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women FARM WIFE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the spring river, the earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM WIFE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the spring river, the earth Last Line: Its black mouth like a scar Subject(s): Farm Life FARM-CIRCLE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peter jersey walked this hill a hundred and hundred Last Line: Maybe I'm love of his work as well -- maybe I'm peter jersey, too. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM-YARD SONG, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hill the farm boy goes Last Line: "murmuring, ""so, boss! So!" Variant Title(s): Evening At The Farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by ENOCH C. DOW Poem Source First Line: I am at peace, what is life's goal Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by VASSO KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: They were full of callouses Last Line: How could he love another country? Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by JACK MYERS Poem Source First Line: He counted himself no different Last Line: Inside it, he figured, was him Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by DORA MIELKE PERNOT Poem Text First Line: A man who loves the soil Last Line: Builds for him a life of fullness earned. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by PRINCE REDCLOUD Poem Source First Line: The farmer, worn from Last Line: Welcome, warm supper Subject(s): Farm Life; United States FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Last Line: As much the earth's as his Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature FARMER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still-blistering late afternoon Last Line: Like minor disappointments %instructive poisons, something he could use Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER DYING, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: All things are still at last. The drone of bees Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER MUSES, by GLENISTER HOSKINS Poem Source First Line: I have watched the slow growth of tall Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER WHIPPLE - BACHELOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four Last Line: To git a pair o' license fer to marry mary brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Single People; Agriculture; Farmers; Bachelors; Unmarried People FARMER'S BOY, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where noble grafton spread his rich domains Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape FARMER'S DAUGHTER, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There's always unseasonable weather Last Line: I sleep with one eye shut %keeping a weather eye out Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S MARKET, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Men and women Last Line: Already their hands %turn into vegetables Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets FARMER'S MARKET, by MARILYNNE THOMAS WALTON Poem Source First Line: Outside, back of the mall Last Line: Eat, to take back what the earth gave Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets; Vegetables FARMER'S OLD WIFE; A SUSSEX WHISTLING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was an old farmer in sussex did dwell Last Line: I have been a tormenter the whole of my life, %but I ne'er was tormented till I met with your wife Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S PRAYER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Spirit of the wheat Last Line: Feed a hungry world Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FARMER'S PRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some folks transplant rice for wages Last Line: Then I feel at peace Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S THOUGHTS, by CH'U KUANG-HSI Poem Source First Line: Spring came, with orioles singing Last Line: Now my heart can find nothing to care for Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FARMERS, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: Farmers grow kindred to the soil they till Last Line: Warming to dim, great dreams of birth and god. Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: Never able to enter Last Line: Also, being human, %there was that need %of a returning place %when so much is denied Subject(s): Farm Life FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FARMERS STILL, by ANNE SLADE Poem Source First Line: At the kitchen table Last Line: Like they were still here Subject(s): Ranch Life FARMERS, FALLING DOWN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: Sympathy the unruly sky parts now into flocks Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, FALLING DOWN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: It mattered. One trembles so to think of it you hold her. %sympathies the unruly sky parts now into Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHAND, by PAMELA BURDAK Poem Source First Line: You say there never was a fence Last Line: The dark welcomes this diversion Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHANDS' REFRAIN, by H. H. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: You reprocrat squires in the farm bureau Last Line: Finding somebody else's god up there %just a-ghosting for somebody else! Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHOUSES THAT AT ANCHOR SEEMED, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The leaves that chased me never won Last Line: And the press that takes the print also wears the plate down Subject(s): Aging; Farm Life FARMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains FARMING ALL NIGHT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I dreamed of a lush stand of hard spring wheat Last Line: Ruinous harvest rain %and flooded barley rotting in the swale Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FARMING HOMES BY WEI RIVER, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: The setting light falls on a hamlet Last Line: At this moment I yearn for freedom and ease, %and, downcast, I sing 'hard straits!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farm Life FARMING PETER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there the scarecrow walked Last Line: The high road telling him %his saviour's face was of straw Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life FARMYARD, by DANIELA ATTANASIO Poem Source First Line: One black horse standing by the gate Subject(s): Farm Life FARNEY'S SISTER, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm expected for many days had tasted Last Line: To look up at farney's sister, I can't Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures; Sisters FARTHER ON, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not think of them all as dead Last Line: Think of them only as farther on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Walking to public school Last Line: Beneath the bare peach tree Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Native Americans; Soil FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE-SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Walking to public school beyond the housing project compound Last Line: To pat the earth %beneath the bare peach tree Subject(s): Farm Life FATE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: He rises before dawn Last Line: Long days recycle themselves Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina FATE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I've had my romance it would thrill you Last Line: Bring us together evermore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost Last Line: This underpass is endless Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day FATHER, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: My children grow up Last Line: Toward my own maze Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FATHER OF THE MAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Last night I sought the lost scout in my dreams Last Line: And I confuse the searcher with the lost Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Homosexuality FATHER'S JEWELRY BOX, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home for a weekend retreat Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives FATHER, WHEN I WAS SIX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The wind flung down the firs that stood on tiptoe Last Line: The moonlight anchored in your grasp Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles with lofty Last Line: Marching away. Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs FAUVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caw caw, caw caw caw Last Line: Of a wolf, and turn wild. Subject(s): Life FEAR, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: Afraid / of dark? That putting out the light Last Line: But glad for every day, when in god's keeping. Subject(s): Fear; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Scared %is running as fast as you can Last Line: Or the terror %of waiting %for the verdict Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See you well anchored in some port of rest Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I have this notion of you: irish Last Line: I fear of my first son Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons FEARE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man must do well out of a good intent Last Line: Not for the servile feare of punishment. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEATHERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A warbler yellower %and smaller than a flower Last Line: In the finger-drifting winds Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEBRUARY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A coyote hides in a draw Last Line: So hunters dream of fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEBRUARY 3, 1899, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just sixty years ago to-day Last Line: And that is all I know Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Old Age FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the stores close, a winter light Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight FEBRUARY QUILT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Uneven days of winter never match Last Line: Here is my february quilt, a strange mismatch! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEBRUARY THAW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind's voice strikes more gently on our ears Last Line: Who thought a february thaw was spring! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEBRUARY, 1951, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: In the cold middle of the month, in th late gray sky afternoon, a young Last Line: His place in this watery world Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage FECKLESS WITH DISGUST, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All erasure of pain Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FECUND COMING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Flames leap from the logs Last Line: Reel my indignant dogs Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEED, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For danny whistling slowly Last Line: Then lean again to scoop up the swill. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FEEDING THE CHICKENS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sharp crayon colors illustrate the scene Last Line: The scene is always near, not years away Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEEDING THE GULLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Winter gulls circle the deserted beach Last Line: They snatch it from the air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FELIS HORRIBILIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Vaulting the frozen river Last Line: Sporting a white cravat Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEMINISM, THE BODY, AND THE MACHINE', by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Scrap of paper, little pencil Last Line: (do you understand now?) %this plunder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FEMME FATALE ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Little noose, little loop Last Line: Rabbit hole waiting to happen? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside, around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FERN-LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, life! Though it seems half a death Last Line: It may never attain. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Soul FEW FACTS ABOUT ME, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: I am moved often, and easily Last Line: And living selfishly when that too is exhaustible Subject(s): Life; Self FIAT LUX, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FICKLE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You've forgotten the hour - forgotten the day Last Line: They will not love as I do, it could not be so Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FICTION, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the innocent lives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Novels & Novelists FICTIONS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Mixing words %on this side of the room Last Line: For the evening news %wrapped heavily in blankets Subject(s): Family Life - India FIDELIA ARGUING WITH HER SELF ON THE DIFFICULTY FINDING TRUE RELIGION, by JANE BARKER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Oh wretched world, but wretched above all Last Line: In pennance my baptismal vows renew. Subject(s): Churches; Life; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology FIELD, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: The breeze stops, the afternoon heat rises Last Line: But from %the next it is fixed in shadow and light Subject(s): Family Life FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Last Line: Uncover a nest of spring salamanders Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELD MAGIC, by DOROTHY DOW Poem Text First Line: A black velvet cow Last Line: Could be heaven, too! Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD OF STUBBLE, LYING SERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On our new england farms Variant Title(s): Poem: 1407; Poem: 141 Subject(s): Farm Life FIELD POEM, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the foreman whistled %my brother and I Last Line: I saw the leaves of cotton plants %like small hands %waving good-bye Subject(s): Farm Life FIELD THEORY, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In those days they grew sweet potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life FIELDS OF THOUGHT, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: For him the walls are not finality Last Line: Food for her dark fidelity to light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIELDS WERE OVERSPREAD WITH FLOWERS, by J. M. Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing Last Line: But I remember his hands Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FIFTH GRADE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was four in this photograph fishing Last Line: But I remember his hands Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Hands FIFTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS A CHOICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O sack of cash! O prayer! Last Line: Insatiable, I rant: my portion's too small: suffering hand to mouth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIFTY YEARS, by DENNIS TRUDELL Poem Source First Line: I found a pair of eyeglasses Last Line: He says. 'why I'll die alone.' Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Memory FIGURES OF THE HUMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, pills in her purse Last Line: Figures of the human struggling awake Subject(s): Life FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Life is a gift that most of us hold dear Subject(s): Cynicism;dreams;life;love;oysters; Nightmares FINALITY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farm was lonely, set so far Last Line: Upon a bird! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FINALLY, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Finally (one year down) I dreamed my mother Last Line: With sleek hides instead of howling Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Relationships; Southern States FINDING, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Love, my love, you are not gone from me Last Line: I just see you in the face of all the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FINDING THE CENTER, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Charles and I had played there all along Last Line: Of the state %of %california Subject(s): California; Farm Life; Geography; Labor And Laborers FINDING THE WORDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I walk it Last Line: Like sparks %from a chip of flint Subject(s): Language; Life; Past FINGER LAKES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We stand in the shower Last Line: And towel each other before it gets cold Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FIRE CEREMONY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl called out to her horse Subject(s): Fire; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Last Line: Wobbling to his feet, the dumb bull, copernicus Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: As barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: My sons'll see the land I am leaving %as barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life FIRST BROTHER LESSON OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: In the room without heat the desk's cherry wood Last Line: Half of the secret of how to live a righteous life on earth? Subject(s): Learning; Life; Religion FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He looked upon that rocky place Last Line: The first crop is stones in anything new Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mustard green and water cress Last Line: Appeases ancient hungering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We had never grasped hands Last Line: (which after all, was thicker than water) Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FIRST GRAY HAIR, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I found a gray hair on my bonny brown head Last Line: With christ in the city of gold Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FIRST HAND, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: From asphalt to dirt road to muck Last Line: In the rain, knee-deep in mud Subject(s): Farm Life FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: This will never happen to me Last Line: My shaky, learning hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses FIRST JOB, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: Minnie chopped off their heads Last Line: That had no hope of ever coming loose Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FIRST PASSION, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Running there I am at fourteen Last Line: Golden gossip of the afternoon Subject(s): Teenagers; Family Life; Relatives FIRST REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AN OMEN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: The gray, the blank Last Line: Them. I do not know their names Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIRST SNOW, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Mom sits by the living room window Last Line: Firmly on the door %without once using a fist Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Parents; Snow FIRST SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: On fields and pastures Last Line: Of the snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST SNOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old black dog comes in one evening Subject(s): Snow; Dogs; Country Life FIRST SURF, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little sparrow / attempting his Last Line: Fearful for my children Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives FIRST SURF, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little sparrow %attempting his Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Family Life FIRST THINGS TO HAND, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the skull kept on the desk. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FIRST, YOU HAVE IT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: You never saw a face Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life FIRSTBORN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The ewe with the partial prolapse of uterus and rectum Last Line: To the roots of blue violets Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FISH WEATHER VANE - CLARYVILLE CHURCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The weather vane is shilly shallying today Last Line: And mackerel skies slow varying winds in motion Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FISHERMAN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Fishing off a riverbank Last Line: Is the only way to go Subject(s): Country Life FISHERMAN SPEAKS, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: Oh, he who walked with fishermen Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry FISHERS, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, we have toiled all night. All night Last Line: Once more, once more - at thy strange word, %master, we will let down the net! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry FISHING AT FORTY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: We got ourselves up Last Line: His silver and steel; the whiskey %behind the seat, half gone; %the long, hard winter coming on Subject(s): Aging; Fishing And Fishermen; Introspection; Life; Middle Age FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers FLAMENCA DUENDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Not just any hot latin blood, but the fiery Last Line: From the molten center of the earth - dancing, %that gold earring dancing till it too burns Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life FLAMENCO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave her alone, dad said. She's learning something this time. Last Line: Goes off like this, when I have to prepare myself for another rescue Subject(s): Family Life; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Songs FLAMMONDE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man flammonde, from god knows where Last Line: Horizons for the man flammonde. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mystery FLARE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the silly, comforting poem Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets FLATMAN (1ST DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the circus. I play the flat man Last Line: Not beethoven beethoven I cannot flatten Variant Title(s): My Show Subject(s): Life FLATMAN (2ND DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you see this card half out of my pocket you know Last Line: And I can pay Subject(s): Life FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Mama is chocolate: you must be swirls %of dark fudge Last Line: Flips of sprinkles %on your %summer %face Variant Title(s): Flavors (1 Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Race Awareness FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Daddy is vanilla: you must be mean %old %bean Last Line: But mostly you %are vanilla %up %your %arms Variant Title(s): Flavors (2 Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Me %is better %butter: I must be %pecans Last Line: It is a new flavor. %for %love Variant Title(s): Flavors (3 Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking FLEETING MOMENTS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: A quarter-mile from the ranch house Last Line: His aging eyes are searching %through the sagebrush to the south Subject(s): Ranch Life FLESH, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hooves were forbidden, but she fed us Subject(s): Food & Eating; Family Life; Relatives FLESHLY ANSWERED, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doomed beauties, my companions, my familiars, Subject(s): Life; Death; Human Body; Dead, The FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, / it is I who am absent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, %it is I who am absent Last Line: The sapphire I know is there? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Last Line: I planned long ago I would live here, somebody's grandfather Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents FLIRTING WITH A PIG, by ALEKSANDAR RISTOVIC Poem Source First Line: Come to me pig, you who dress yourself as a courtier Last Line: By turns throwing curses and praises upon you Subject(s): Farm Life FLOATING LADY RETABLO: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the shape of the sound all the information you need Last Line: Churlish defenses from here to yonder baby it's zero visibility Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Relationships FLOOD SERMON, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, we got up, surely half the town Last Line: That the world was leass good than it was bad Subject(s): Floods; City & Town Life FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World FLORENCE AND ERNIE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I walked in. He said florence Last Line: And what did they want her to give Subject(s): Family Life FLORIDA - ALIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to think that florida Last Line: And every ditch full of the soup of life Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOUNDER, by RON SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: I cannot imagine my life at a pace that allows the gracious gathering Last Line: The problem is this, I don't know if she's joking or not Subject(s): Life; Retirement FLOW CHART, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the published city but not yet Last Line: Put up to warm us and as soon expunged, in part of wholly Subject(s): Language Poetry; Life FLOWER DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: On flower day the gardens came Last Line: On flower day. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life FLOWERING ALMOND, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: You feed the turtles cat food Last Line: Laid lightly down along the split rail fence %each spring for years Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FLOWERING BASSWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In summer forest tarrying Last Line: Is sweeter than the first Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWERS FOR JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew brought flowers from the pasture Last Line: Andrew always brought me flowers, she would say Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWING LIGHT OF THE GODHEAD: GOD ASKS THE SOUL WHAT IT BRINGS, by MECHTHILD VON MAGDEBURG Poem Source First Line: Thou huntest sore for thy love Last Line: There will I remain %and circle evermore Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLYING CHANGE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The canter has two stride patterns, one on the right lead Last Line: I hold myself immobile in bright air, %sustained in time astride the flying change Subject(s): Farm Life FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FLYING OFF, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thoughts will not be tethered Last Line: In flight through thinning air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLYING TO IRELAND, AGAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's like looking down on a quilt Last Line: And left it behind in belclare Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FLYING TO SAUSALITO WITH MY SISTER, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: In a cloud above the badlands Last Line: En route to our %dying brother Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Travel FOES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank fate for foes! I hold mine dear Last Line: He guards me ever with his hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Fate; Hate; Life; Sin; Destiny FOG, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Our hospital sits on a rise Last Line: On the perfect white-out of a morning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FOGHORN IN HORROR, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that behind these walls is the city, over these rooftops in the sun Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fog; Haze FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOOT REFLEXOLOGIST, FARMERS AND CHRISTMAS, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: For twenty bucks an hour, the old and lame Last Line: A hundred-acre farm in oklahoma Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion FOOTFALLS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, be my pillow Last Line: Seen . . . Subject(s): Life FOOTPRINTS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Once %the beast paused here Last Line: To prove I was here Subject(s): Country Life FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 1. CYCLAMEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the tresses, blown Last Line: A picture -- a flower! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Persephone; Women; Proserpine; Proserpina FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 4. SAINT VERONICA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veronica, speedwell, eyelet of the hedge Last Line: Life conquer death, and love at last prevail. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Saints; Tears; Dead, The FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 6. SPRING DELAYED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you tarry so long, spring? Last Line: The breath and the raiment of god! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Spring; Winter FOR A CHILD BORN DEAD, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What ceremony can we fit Last Line: That grief can be as pure as this Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women FOR A GENTLE FRIEND, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have come to where the deep words are Last Line: And marvel at the quiet good he's done Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FOR A GOOD COMPANION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We ate stone soup together Last Line: Alone is chill and bleak Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR A GOOD DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog ten years ago Last Line: And lie in dust with hector's pup; %so, presently, must I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life Change Events FOR ALL, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah to be alive Subject(s): Life FOR AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though old the thought and oft exprest Last Line: And scrawl, as I do here, a name. Subject(s): Autographs; Life; Religion; Theology FOR AN UNBORN BABY, by JANET SHEPPERSON Poem Source First Line: If she's a girl, %I hope she'll stretch her wings Last Line: - and may he achieve no less %if he's a boy Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR ANDREW WOOD, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What would the dead want from us Last Line: What our dead friends would want from us %would be such living friends Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR BERENICE, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: Berenice, your sister, the edomite queen Last Line: Resembles the marshes of tyre and of sidon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sisters; Twins; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR CAROL, ON HER TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the april hour before the sun Last Line: But now, I look at you, and it is spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR DANIEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sorry there's nothing in the nest Last Line: All I can find is a thin - shelled doubt Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR DAVID, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Then we feed the cattle with Last Line: From words and the emptiness I feel %is forever Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR DEATH, - OR RATHER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For the rates lie here Subject(s): Life; Death FOR EVER, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Withhold thy love, though life betrays Last Line: O heart fulfil thy fond desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR EVERY ONE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: For every one we know the inside Last Line: True: red for every one Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FOR GRAMPA, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: So, now it's come down to this: Last Line: With a grampa for a hero, I guess Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR JULIA IN NEBRASKA, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midwest of willa cather Last Line: A grandmother's strong hands plaited %straight down a grand-daughter's back Subject(s): Cather, Willa (1873-1947); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women FOR MARY, BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The nurse held out a snugly wrapped cocoon Last Line: May friendly stars reach down and comfort you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven. Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers FOR MOHAMMED ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle mohammed, you mystery, you distant secretive face Subject(s): Uncles; Family Life; Relatives FOR MY DAUGHTER, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: She often lies with her hands behind her head Subject(s): Family Life FOR MY DAUGHTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: This is the summer storm Subject(s): Family Life; Parents FOR MY FATHER ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: Fully imagined, I suppose Subject(s): Family Life FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me 'twas given to die; to thee 'tis given Last Line: Mark! How impartial is the will of heaven! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise FOR MY SON, BORN DURING AN ICE STORM, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: Steven, your birth brought Subject(s): Family Life FOR ONE RETURED INTO THE COUNTRY, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, lying world, with all thy Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FOR RICHMOND'S GARDEN WALL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thomas set this tablet here Last Line: Time's chuckled laughter in the lane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Time FOR RODDY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am imagining this of you Last Line: Toward me, wherever, whose ever I am. Subject(s): Imagination; Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The; Fancy FOR SIXTY-THREE YEARS I'VE GROUND MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It out and put it high on the pantry shelf Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Self FOR SOULS, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Perhaps, he said, it's not a man's heart or mind Last Line: And wonders why - it's free, at last. %gread god almight, free %... At last Subject(s): Ranch Life FOR THE EATING OF SWINE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned sloppiness from an old sow Last Line: What pity should I feel, or gratitude, raising you %on my fork as all the dead shall be risen? Subject(s): Farm Life FOR THE FUTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder did you ever count Last Line: Sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fate; Future; Life; Love; Destiny FOR THE GIFT OF CHILDHOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Common heritage that endures from generation to generation Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR THE HOG KILLING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the eye Last Line: By our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FOR THE HOG KILLING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the eye Last Line: For by our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond Subject(s): Farm Life FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1723, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hail to the lov'd, returning, glorious day! Last Line: Britannia! Ever blest, if they. Subject(s): Birthdays; Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Chicago; Cities; Urban Life FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your people Last Line: Who chose you as his bride. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth FOR THE THEBAN DEAD, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The sacred band is overthrown Last Line: Sags on his bloody horse and weeps Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FOR THESE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An acre of land between the shore and the hills Last Line: And also that something may be sent %to be connected with, I ask of fate Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens And Gardening; Prayer FOR WALT WHITMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot read you Last Line: The boss? Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FOR YAEDI, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking out the window at the trees Last Line: Now I know myself from a stone / or a sledgehammer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FOR YOU, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you, I could forget the gay Last Line: "what could I not forget for you?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The FORBEAR!, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A little of your art forbear! Last Line: Give less, give less of heaven to lose. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Paradise FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb %how at my sheet goes the same crooked worm Subject(s): Death; Life; Time FOREBODING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why do these tragic fancies throng Last Line: The way is pity, margaret. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; God; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOREIGN LAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: May poles - merry - go - rounds Last Line: Childhood is a foreign land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOREST OF CHILDHOOD, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot from tussock to tussock I ran Last Line: Like a crane in spring Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life FOREST PLANTATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These stubborn acres never liked the plow Last Line: We will restore its heritage of trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FORETASTE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do I know that after this Last Line: And sun me in thine immortality. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOREVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Forever and ever the reddening leaves Last Line: Forever the rain rains on Subject(s): Future Life;memory;rain; Retribution;eternity;after Life FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs FOREVER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do know that birds continue to live and procreate as long as Last Line: For the sake of living with questions Subject(s): Birds; Life FORGET ABOUT IT, by ROBERT CURRIE Poem Source First Line: Uncle eddie told him how it was Subject(s): Family Life FORGIVE ME!, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O my darling - forgive me! Last Line: Through a long eternity Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FORGIVENESS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: One day after my father died Last Line: In our eyes, make every day blaze alive Subject(s): Desire; Family Life; Forgiveness; Marriage; Parents FORGOTTEN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Forgotten! Yes that is the word Last Line: To drop a tear, or give a sigh Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FORGOTTEN WOUNDS, by HELEN DYKSTRA Poem Source First Line: The hoofprint on the tender blade of grass Subject(s): Farm Life FORM IS STILL, UNFOLDING, by LEE SCRIVNER Poem Source First Line: Light through this curtain slips Last Line: While the form is still, unfolding Subject(s): Life FORSAKEN FARMHOUSE, by LYDIA HAMMOND GALE Poem Text First Line: That grayed beam hewn from nearby lot Last Line: Whence all his brood saw life begun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FORSAKEN ISLE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Homing flocks %of guillemots Last Line: Hovels tumble %into rubble Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FORSYTHIA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Sun at the window and the blaze Last Line: And life was greatly coming on. Subject(s): Life; Spring FORTUNATE SPILL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Johnnie thinks. He has his nerve! Last Line: And I watch from this distant balcony %as they fall for eachother, and for me Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life FORTUNE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam fortune, thou in vain Last Line: And in victory's hour am dying. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Life; Valor; Bravery FORTUNE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt good and ill my wavering fortune see Last Line: Diminishing and dwindling quite to nought. Subject(s): Fortune; Life FORTUNE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvel no more although Last Line: To sing some pleasant song. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 52;song: 32 Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Life; Singing & Singers FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do I give for the pope and his riches Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): England - Social Life And Customs; Famous People FORWARD THROUGH THE AGES, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Move we on together %to the shining goal! Subject(s): Future Life FOUNT THAT FREELY FLOWS, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How well I know the fount that freely flows Last Line: Is in the bread of life, which now I see %although 'tis night Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Future Life FOUNTAIN-HEADS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alike from depths of joy and sorrow start Last Line: Alike must flow again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fountains; Life FOUR / FOOT / FEAT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Imagine I am standing with Last Line: Four foot feat: enough to make me sit %right down Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FOUR ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF DANG YO-UNE, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood outside the gates of lhasa for four days Subject(s): Life FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our folks gone a visiting, reverend sir Last Line: Was all by one language,—as clear as the sun. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Language; Miracles; Religion; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 4. THE BURDEN, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden, flowering, at heavy cost Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 1815 ALABAMA AVENUE, by MICHAEL MARTONE Poem Source First Line: There is a proch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right Last Line: Pers drying, frozen in the winter, sheets of white chocolate Subject(s): Family Life; Houses FOUR HORSE HITCH, by JERRY WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: As the monsignor stampedes through Last Line: And summers on diamond creek Subject(s): Ranch Life FOUR SONNETS: 1, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: A hundred years ago the church bells spoke Last Line: An old man died and a young child was born. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The FOUR WINDOWS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near grandma's tree-sconced house in brooklyn Last Line: My fact - touches me so quick, quick as life. Subject(s): Life; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FOUR YEARS AGO, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Four years ago! Four years ago! Last Line: Those blissful hours - four years ago Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio FOURTH, by GREGORY FRASER Poem Source First Line: When, at last, in the shallows of late afternoon Last Line: Already, or whether, drowsily, he hears these %claps in the distance as dull applause Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness FOURTH NIGHT, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON Poem Text First Line: Escape the towers of the night Last Line: I know of what heat brings. Subject(s): Future Life; Night; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty FOURTH REMOVE: IN WHICH WHAT HOLDS GIVES WAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm a good prisoner Last Line: To redeem or fetch me now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers FOX'S DINGLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take now a country mood Last Line: In snow-cool water. Variant Title(s): A Country Mood Subject(s): Country Life FRAGMENT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of a city, how awful at midnight! Last Line: Of her huge temples. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say I? - not a syllable further in prose Last Line: With majesty's presence as those she invited. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life FRAGMENT: AMOR AETERNUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Last Line: All that frail stuff which will be -- or which was. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed once a fleet and mighty serpent Last Line: Whose earthquake-shaken leaves bore graves for nests. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: HUMAN LIFE - ITS VALUE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, what I plead for: for a life! The gift Last Line: Into one ray.— Subject(s): Life FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FRAMELESS WINDOWS, SQUARED OF LIGHT, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything changed the summer your sister Last Line: Waiting for the words to come in Subject(s): Family Life FRANK GOLDIN, PATIENT, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Excuse me, ladies, gentlemen, let's start Last Line: Reflection is a sassy coroner Subject(s): Life; Physics; Poetry And Poets; Teaching And Teachers FRANKIE BAKER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life FRED'S STORE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: What's become of fred mayberry Subject(s): Farm Life FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D.D. ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What lapse or accident of time Last Line: His mellowest music be his last. Subject(s): Birthdays; Hedge, Frederick Henry (1805-1890); Life; Youth FREE & EASY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm the lad that's free and easy Last Line: What else makes this life so dear? Subject(s): Life;love;trials FREEDOM IS LONELY, by GERTRUDE SCOTT JEWELL Poem Source First Line: Freedom is such a lonely thing! Subject(s): Farm Life FREEDOM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to visit the cow / dying of fever Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FREEDOM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to visit the cow %dying of fever Last Line: And the few who loved him know this until they die Subject(s): Farm Life FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Last Line: To smoke, watching %the german pow's pump gas, %wash windshields %and laugh %at the motorpool %acros Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life FRESHET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The brook begins to leap and show its claws Last Line: The house cat is a tiger for an hour Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FRIDAY WAITING FOR MOM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am seven Last Line: Says so too Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives FRIDAY WAITING FOR MOM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am seven Last Line: Mama and %everett anderson- %friends Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our friends in the courts of peace we keep Last Line: Through death is ours forever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The FRIENDSHIP?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in the bitterest woes of life Last Line: To learn that they are not worth our love. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Pity; Tears FRINGE BENEFITS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lib alone and like it if you choose Last Line: Fringe benefits attached are simply great! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FRITHIOF'S SAGA: FRITHIOF'S FAREWELL, by ESAIAS TEGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall I see Last Line: "what avails it? He who is born must die.'" Subject(s): Farewell; Legends, Norse; Life; Parting FROG, by CHRISTIAN NAGLE Poem Source First Line: Where a high window frame encounters brick Last Line: My throat balloons with an ecstatic pulse Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Life FROG AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: He sat on a lotus leaf Last Line: Into the sleeping pond Subject(s): Family Life - China FROG COUNTRY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Where there's a will Last Line: With a pardon in my pocket Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Frogs FROM 'THE LIFE IS A DREAM', by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live, while we see the sun Last Line: And that dreams themselves are a dream Subject(s): Dreams; Life FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FROM A BUS WINDOW IN CENTRAL OHIO, JUST BEFORE A THUNDER SHOWER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cribs loaded with roughage huddle together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers FROM A CANISTER LABELED ABILENE, 1938, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: I think this celluloid will break Last Line: The road, and more blasts of whiteness %take everything Subject(s): Family Life; Photography And Photographers FROM A CAR WINDOW, by JOSIE FRAZEE CAPPLEMAN Poem Text First Line: A glimpse and a glance and a fathomless gaze Last Line: Shall arise from the ranks of the overalls. Subject(s): Boys; Country Life FROM A CITY DESK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy would bring the oxen in from work Last Line: The boy comes back, and he cannot forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM A DAY-BOOK OF A FORGOTTEN PRINCE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is happy or we should be poor Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Relatives FROM A LETTER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is always a little space of time here, between the close of Subject(s): Farm Life FROM A LOST DIARY, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not begun the great journey I was to undertake. I did not Last Line: Though the sun continues to stand at my door Subject(s): Diaries; Conduct Of Life FROM A PLACE I CAME, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall I come at last %to the lost beginning? Subject(s): Life Change Events FROM A VISION, by TS'AO CHIH Poem Text First Line: In the nine provinces there is not room enough Last Line: My span is extended to the enjoyment of life everlasting. Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Life FROM ANOTHER PLANET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life here supports happiness as we know it Last Line: Your sun, a pa;e heartbeat, is our pole star Subject(s): Life FROM MADAME DELUXE'S DISCOUNT BIN, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: What I've learned about religion Last Line: Thanks for stopping, %please come again Subject(s): Life; Thought FROM MY B&B LIGHTHOUSE ON CLARE ISLAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mostly when I think of grainne uaile Last Line: Looking lonely as one graffito Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FROM MY DIARY: OCTOBER DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees have briefly come to bloom Last Line: Before they fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM ORIENT POINT, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The art of living isn't hard to muster Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FROM POLAND, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After soulless germany, my sister writes Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Poland; Homecoming; Family Life; Jews FROM PRADO ROTUNDA: THE FAMILY OF CHARLES IV, AND OTHERS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Francisco jose de goya y lucientes Last Line: Which demands, like everything alive, / love Subject(s): Family Life; Paintings And Painters; Prado (museum), Madrid; Relatives FROM PRADO ROTUNDA: THE FAMILY OF CHARLES IV, AND OTHERS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Francisco jose de goya y lucientes Last Line: Which demands, like everything alive, %love Subject(s): Family Life; Paintings And Painters; Prado (museum), Madrid FROM THE ANTIQUE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weary life, it is, she said Last Line: Would make and weary and fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lament; Life; Women FROM THE CITY, by ALLAN UPDEGRAFF Poem Text First Line: On every side the endless, hurrying press Last Line: And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess? Subject(s): Cities; Yale University; Urban Life FROM THE COURIER'S POUCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: As you like it made its debut last night Last Line: We in the know thought he stole the show Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FROM THE FIFTIES, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Mother's singer sewing machine Last Line: Blank eyes. %the mouth of lies Subject(s): Family Life; History FROM THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, for a moment, all is well Last Line: Nay, life is love; love lasts, o heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grass; Life; Love; Nature FROM THE LEGEND OF HARTFORD, by ELEANOR O'ROURKE KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Three hundred years... They come back spirit-wise Last Line: The strong bent of our spirits move us thither. Subject(s): Constellations; Spiritual Life FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SALT RIVER, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Imagine this view seen from the slope Last Line: From here: this tilt of north %in your life Subject(s): Farm Life; Wyoming FROM THE PALE AND THE DEEP, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And sweets in all Subject(s): Hearts; Life FROM THE SOIL (TWO MONOLOGUES), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aham a mighty simple man and only Last Line: All over hill and dale. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FROM THE TRAIN WINDOW, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Lost children, and hurt dogs Last Line: The great dumps of the city! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States FRONT PORCH, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: People who live in cities never know Last Line: Who can remember many things with pride, %who built front porches neighbourly and wide Subject(s): Country Life; Great Lakes FRONT PORCH WITH SCREENS, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: There was a cozy grove of young pine trees Last Line: And watch you don't knock over that good dish Subject(s): Houses; Life FRONTIER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would god the route would come from home Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life FRONTIER, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Mold weeps through %the sp depot mural Last Line: Equals in an eden where art leaves them Subject(s): Art And Artists; Frontier And Pioneer Life FRONTIERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She prefers to look at the seas of foreign lands Last Line: Is a wound %with no flags Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life FROST DOGS ARE RUNNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost dogs are running Last Line: And leave it black Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROST ON THE WINDOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider is weaving her fragile web Last Line: With the fabric of dreams and mystery Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROST TO-NIGHT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-green west and an orange bar Last Line: Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. Subject(s): Cold; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life FROSTING, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The rain is crooked as it hits the window Last Line: And good riddance too, nasty old coot Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age; Rain FRUIT, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: In the white pasture of the sun Last Line: And that the milky way is an orchard Subject(s): Farm Life FRUSTRATE WAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moved by the mighty thoughts men crave Subject(s): Country Life FUCHSIA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprentice morning come easily now, Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life; Landscape FUGITIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I miss the little sound of leaves Last Line: Winter - weary mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you ask, o soul? Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset." Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul FULL OF LIFE NOW, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full of life now, compact, visible Last Line: Now with you.) Subject(s): Life FUNCKTIONSLUST, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's german for the pleasure in what one does best. Last Line: A baby who never speaks a word of german knows, %tasting the nipple, the sweet milk flooding in. Subject(s): Family Life; Germany; Language - Pronunciation FUNNEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The family story tells, and it was told true Subject(s): Family Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Religion; Theology FURTHER TOYS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The janitor washing the blackboard Last Line: Ripples across the sky overhead / brilliant afternoon Variant Title(s): Toys Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FURTIVE LIFE, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: Surely it will be like now. I'll be awake Last Line: Let them enter. You have to tell them everyhing Subject(s): Life FUTURITY, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, spectres, rise! Some pitying ghost, appear Last Line: And spring to clasp her in the world unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FUTURITY, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, when the spirit fleets away Last Line: The unconscious form and lifeless clay. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language GAGAKU (80), by STEVE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: Depressed this 2-2-94 morn then Last Line: Even cute in their red %full cotton %coats Subject(s): Family Life; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Mothers GAIN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A backwall of mirrors in a deserted store Last Line: Yellow in the whites of my eyes. Pretend to wonder why Subject(s): City & Town Life GALILEAN, by MARGIELEA STONESTREET Poem Source First Line: Sad searching eyes with benediction in their gaze Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry GALLANT LADY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: She walks with life Last Line: Glad eyes, a sunny sympathy. Subject(s): Life GAMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father orders me to run around a giant billiard Last Line: Their tiny, funereal flags Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers GANYMEDE AND THE EAGLE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A sudden blow, and outstretched talons clasp Last Line: How could he miss the maidens or the sheep? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality GAP IN THE HEDGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That man, prytherch, with the torn cap Last Line: At early morning, when the light is right, %and I look up suddenly at a bird's flight Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life GAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the river house swayed Last Line: Like a memory at the light. Subject(s): Country Life; Fish & Fishing; Southern States; Anglers; South (u.s.) GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth buffets and harasses Last Line: For solace and for sleep. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World GARDENER, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the green and yellow rice fields Subject(s): Country Life GATE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the taste of the sun-hot tomato, lip-red, viscous Last Line: We might begin to enter the world Subject(s): Life GATE A-FALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunshine of our summers Last Line: To hear behind this last farewell %the gate a-fallen to Subject(s): Life Change Events GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While this green month is fleeting Last Line: All joys expire. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The GATHERING, by WILLIAM H. MATCHETT Poem Source First Line: Here, in our best bib and tucker we flock Last Line: Love, the core of it all Subject(s): Life Change Events GATHERING CATTLE ... JACKSON HOLE 1979, WYOMING, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: A few snow flakes falling here Last Line: Just as smooth as a school marm's leg Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life GATHERING MINT, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: He woke quiet, ate potatoes and eggs Last Line: From the beaver slough Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GATHERING OF SWALLOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The gathering of swallows lasts for days Last Line: Then silence hovers and the birds are gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the rooms of the house Last Line: That arches toward the other shore. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying! Last Line: We arise to be your masters. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes. Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life GAZING OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE, by YIN RENRONG Poem Source First Line: Gazing over the countryside, there is no mountain scenery Last Line: Beneath them there are people strolling by Subject(s): Country Life GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEESE STOPPING OVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A torrent of birds Last Line: Except for a few soft settling - down words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GENEALOGICAL QUERY, by ANNE MARPLE Poem Source First Line: Do the syon house dogs Subject(s): Family Life; Geology GENEALOGY OF FIRE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister held an old piece of bread Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Arabs; Family Life; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives GENERAL INSPECTING THE TRENCHES., by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If somebody shot that shit shute Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Army Life; World War I GENERATIONS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: More than casual %but less than %constant companions Last Line: His father's death %make us %the old men now Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GENES, by LAURA LUSH Poem Source First Line: It lies coiled Last Line: Gleaming %with history Subject(s): Dna; Family Life GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest Subject(s): Country Life GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GENESIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer world that was before this earth Last Line: So shall a man be after among the dead. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Life; Light; Universe; World GENESIS 9: 8-17. THE FIRST RAINBOW, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And god spake unto noah, and to his sons Last Line: I have established between and me and all flesh that is upon the earth Subject(s): Country Life GENIUS LOCI, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make it / the place Subject(s): Oakland, California; City & Town Life; Life Choices GENRE: INTERIOR, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall hope to come again and find / you Last Line: Light at the chatter of your youngest boy. Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GENTLE SHEPHERD, SELS., by ALLAN RAMSAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life GENTLEMAN OF THE PRAIRIE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: He is mulch about rosebushes Last Line: Like loam beneath a plow Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GENTLEMAN'S MEETING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One early bright may morning Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GEOGRAPHY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life GEOGRAPHY OF THIS TIME, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GEORGE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Didn't own much Last Line: Be poor and follow me Subject(s): Character; Farm Life; Men; Poverty GEORGE COLLINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: George collins rode home one cold winter night Last Line: For I know they'll never kiss mine Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GEORGE RIPLEY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Warm, generous and young in heart and brain Last Line: Whose souls toward truth and not its semblance, tend. Subject(s): Life; Ripley, George (1802-1880); Soul GERMAN FAVORS, by F. C. CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Pendent from my chandelier Last Line: Will not filch away. Subject(s): Details; Life; Things GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GETTIN' ON, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: You cowboys can tell your bronc ride tales Last Line: Cause their favorite mornin' pastime %is watching me get on Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GETTING ALONG, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We trudge on together, my good man and I Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Life; Walking; Women GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back %toward the frog pond, carrying Last Line: And the kyrie of a chainsaw down off wheelock mountain Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say Last Line: You wish you owned another stove! Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When you wish you could get away Last Line: To a quiet afternoon, nothing %unusual, nothing much %going on. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers GHAZEL, by QURRAT AL-'AYN Poem Source First Line: The thralls of yearning love constrain in the bands of pain and calamity Last Line: Since fearing not this step to take, thou shalt gain the highest felicity Subject(s): Islam; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHAZEL, by SIDQI Poem Source First Line: He who union with the lord gains, more delight desireth not! Last Line: Thou atr soul enow, and sidqi other plight desireth not Subject(s): Public Worship; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHOST OF THE BEAUTIFUL PAST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost of the beautiful past, of the days long gone, of a Last Line: In glory! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GHOSTS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the eve of bosworth, it is said Last Line: And their pale hands the battle shall decide. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; Supernatural GHOSTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ghosts in the room Last Line: In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Happiness; Hope; Life; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Optimism GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Awake in a giant night Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GIDEON'S BAND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this unearthly noise Last Line: For every dog must have his day. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Music & Musicians GIFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark gave the boy the shell before he left Last Line: The old man knew he had eternity Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GIFT, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to give you something, my child Last Line: Follows her with his love Subject(s): Life Change Events GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee? Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life GIFT OF HERA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In an unbroken line Last Line: Learned at his father's knee? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality GIFT OF REST BE WITH YOU WHERE YOU LIE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life GIFTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The divine lover, says hafiz Last Line: Like hungry ghosts grieving %their lost worlds Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GIGGING ON ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light bleeding onto pines Last Line: Rolling away from the boat far out across the black water. Subject(s): Boats; Country Life; Hunting; Men; Hunters GILBERT: 2. THE PARLOUR, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm is the parlour atmosphere Last Line: "above its threatened shame." Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives GILDED CHAINS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I knew that you loved me and yet Last Line: But it will be too late - too late! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio GIPSIES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether from india's burning plains Last Line: And both may laugh at fortune. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Gypsies; Life; Gipsies GIRGENTI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many here have struggled, fought the fight! Last Line: Defeated always -- but how splendidly! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Dead, The GIRL AT THE PIANO, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins, what I cn hear, with the rain withdrawing from itself Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives GIRL COUSIN, by SCOTT TRAVIS HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: My mom's one of twelve kids, making me Last Line: Beside her, as the dust danced away behind us all Subject(s): Cousins; Family Life; Girls GIRL I LEFT ON NEW RIVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My parents raised me tenderly Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GIRL WHO LOVED THE SKY, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: Outside the second grade room Subject(s): Family Life; History GIRLFRIENDS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: In our twenties Last Line: That's why we call it %our indulgence Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women GIRLS OF THE LIGHT, by JOSE MARIA EGUREN Poem Source Last Line: Sparkle %and smile Subject(s): Life GIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the rivers flowing Last Line: God will give thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature; Rivers GIVE ME YOUTH AND THE WORLD IS MINE, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: At the fountain of youth, I drank, one day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GIVE US A SONG, IAN TYSON, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Write me a tune, ian tyson Last Line: So, please sing one more time, ian tyson, %your song. Yes, sing it again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GIVING NOTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm through with tending sacred cows Last Line: But give no milk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLAD ACRE, by LEONE RICE GRELLE Poem Text First Line: They said he'd starve Last Line: A hundred-fold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight GLADLY THOUGH I LOST IT AND KNEW I WOULD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a community of a handful Subject(s): Life GLADLY THOUGH I LOST IT AND KNEW I WOULD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a community of a handful Last Line: Gladly, though I lost it, and knew I would Subject(s): Life GLASGOW, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poet, 'tis a merry world Last Line: Dwells in thy noise and smoky breath. Subject(s): Cities; Glasgow, Scotland; Urban Life GLEANERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Empty pods rattle on stiff brown vines Last Line: Field mice take what the pheasants scorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLIMPSES, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life comes to us only by glimpses Last Line: Has found its interpreter -- christ! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GLORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment of glory every once in a while Last Line: Whose inhabitants haven't learned to create from nothing Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life GLORY DAYS, by TANYA KERN Poem Source First Line: Daddy wanted a uniform Last Line: Drifts atlantic floor, hot guns on the kitchen table Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Fathers; World War Ii GLORY HOLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everyone should have a glory hole Last Line: Everyone should have a glory hole! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLORY OF THE GARDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our england is a garden that is full of stately views Last Line: And the glory of the garden it shall never pass away! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion GLUT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole point was getting rid of glut Subject(s): Conduct Of Life GO AND JUST BUCKAROO, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: They say with barbed wire came the fall of the west Last Line: And out in the west, when they lay me down to rest %I'll go and just buckaroo Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GO AWAY!, by LINDA MICHELLE BARON Poem Source First Line: Somehow I'm always %in the way Last Line: Is it them? %or is it me? Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life GO DOWN FOR THE PRESIDENT, by FREDERICK TURNER Poem Source First Line: Go down, go down, all you little men Last Line: Should not the men go down, go down? Subject(s): Army Life; Politics GO THOU, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy beauty now, as trees their leaves Last Line: Tingling amid my boughs are only life. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE Poem Text First Line: God sat down with the farmer Last Line: A toiler more old than toil. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers GOD FORGIVES, BUT MEN DO NOT, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: For long years on a fragile bark Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GOD MADDENS HIM WHOM 'TIS HIS WILL TO LOSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life GOD MAKES A RIME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life GOD MOTHER: 1. THE NURTURER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She is a breast Last Line: Roll down your throat Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD MOTHER: 2. OUR LADY OF THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything blooms %from her body Last Line: Are leaving %in eddies of sound Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD MOTHER: 3. KALI, GODDESS OF DEATH, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She wears her corded %necklace of skulls Last Line: To darkness, %to before Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD'S ABODE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Some say the god lies coiled Last Line: We are her translucent vessel, %container and contained Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD'S MISTRESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The other bears %his ring and name Last Line: The sidewalks empty, %and all curtains close Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOD'S OWN, by MRS. L. J. HOWARD JR. Poem Text First Line: There's wondrous living beauty in all things loved by god Last Line: And his 'biding place, I'm certain, is my mississippi farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Mississippi; Agriculture; Farmers GOD'S WORLD AND MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Beneath god's ever present sky Last Line: Marks life's beginning and its end. Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Life; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOD, AND THE KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How am I bound to two! God who doth give Last Line: The mind; the king, the meanes whereby I live. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GODLESS SKY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Airborne, I view the flood Last Line: Under the godless sky Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality GODS UNCHOSEN NEITHER SULK NOR GRIEVE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I think they have been watching us Last Line: Or hanging mountain lakes, %aspen fired in gold Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOETHE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose voice shall so invade the spheres Last Line: And made one talent ten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Life; Poetry & Poets; Destiny GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who says with solemn pride Last Line: "that ""wheel"" themselves to death." Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Migrant Labor; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers GOING OVER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This poem of kabir, %the one beginning Last Line: Into that waiting, rolling sea? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOING SOMEWHERE', by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend Last Line: All bound as is befitting eachall surely going somewhere Subject(s): Life; Knowledge GOING TO BUY SOME HEIFERS; THE DEATH OF JESSE PARKER, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: We turn onto a dirt road. Calves scamper away Last Line: Nobody knows what happened Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life GOING TO DINNER, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beat the knife on the plate and the fork on the can Last Line: Make a most infernal clatter, here the dinner comes! Subject(s): Army Life GOING TO TOWN FOR PARTS, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Whenever the tractor quits or balks Last Line: No wonder I'm round the bend Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The golden age was first; which uncompeld Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Country Life GOLDEN AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come grant me, come lend me Subject(s): Country Life GOLDEN DRAGON, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The fish by the fortune cookies Last Line: To the sweet remains Subject(s): Dragons; Future Life GOLDEN EAGLE AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: I dreamed of rescuing a golden eagle Last Line: Down this city pit of haikou Subject(s): Family Life - China GOLDEN HAZE OR HALO, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I know you are there, waiting to find me Last Line: Now you are pacing again Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GOLDEN RULES FOR THE YOUNG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in batting, hold your bat upright" Last Line: A butter-fingers is worst of all Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports GOLDEN STATE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see my father Subject(s): Family Life; Death - Fathers; Divorce; Relatives GOLDEN VERSES, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, free thinker! Do you believe you alone can reason Last Line: The spirit grows under the surface of stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals GOLF AND LIFE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Life's but a game of golf Last Line: "to ""hole down"" at the end." Subject(s): Golf; Life; Sports GONE BEFORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was most like a rose when it flushes rarest Last Line: Heart-pierced thro' and thro'. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Singing & Singers GONE YEARS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night pockets the house Last Line: With his long wool arms Subject(s): Family Life GOOD BUCKSKIN HORSE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Yellow trimmed in black Last Line: Cow-huntin' mother Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life GOOD COMPANION, by BELLE F. OWENS Poem Source First Line: Wayworn and weary Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE, REVISED, by ALEXANDRA SOCARIDES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I sit in the silo-topped barn Last Line: My plae-blue joy, says: we are not our own light Subject(s): Country Life GOOD HARVEST, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Last winter, %the agricultural co-op was formed. Last Line: Is a harvest of bliss and love Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage GOOD LUCK CHARM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Our hike all done this perfect morning, Last Line: Like you in my palm when you take away %the dark night, bringing me %all the luck I need. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GOOD NIGHT, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodnight mommy %goodnight dad Last Line: But my night of sleep's in bloom Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life GOOD NIGHT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: My brother sighs in his sleep Last Line: And already I miss it. %good night Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Night GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Family Life; United States; Relatives; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Last Line: Oh children think about the %good times Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; United States GOOD YEAR, by ALEJANDRO CARRION Poem Source First Line: A song sprang to their lips Subject(s): Farm Life GOOD, CLEAN FUN!, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source First Line: I remember making hay with dad Last Line: It's gonna take some mighty sweet talkin' %when that light burns out again! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Last Line: And you might as well get used to it, your ord's Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii GOODBYE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poor woman, lies tonight Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives GOODBYE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poor woman, lies tonight Last Line: That is how we have learned, the embrace is all Subject(s): Family Life GOODNESS, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As my husband set the table for breakfast Subject(s): Family Life; Transcience; Relatives GOOSEFEATHERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve I sat by myself in the steamliner Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers GOPI TURNED SOLEMN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Krishna is at the forest edge, %waiting Last Line: His eyes closing %for another deep eternity Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GORSE FIRES, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cattle out of their byres are dungy still, lambs Last Line: And celandines and white may and gorse flowers Subject(s): Farm Life GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I / can step inside Last Line: Heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I %can step inside Last Line: Through god's net and swims %heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GOTHIC ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I expect everything bottomless Last Line: Let the shutters bang Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GRACE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: If we could go back twenty years Last Line: Each moment we have so full of grace Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love GRAIL, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Under my feet %in the subterranean Last Line: In a crowded market %after a sack of promises Subject(s): Family Life - India GRAINING THE MARE, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Out back of lillie's barn, the sparse Last Line: On the skins of baked potatoes Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GRANARY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I know, %you want to speak Last Line: Rushing to return %their gold to the sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life GRAND CANYON, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: From this rimrock edge two courting ravens Last Line: You and me Subject(s): Ranch Life GRAND HOTEL EUROPA, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The carline thistles wither in the vase on the shelf. No man's land Last Line: Anymore, yet I must sing for them to find peace in my song, finally united Subject(s): Affliction; Introspection; Life GRANDAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's mighty sweet, I guess Last Line: But dang it! God, don't speed me Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Old Age GRANDFATHER, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: This would be before the war when sweet butter came Last Line: God in the poem? Some barred-rocks running around? Subject(s): Farm Life GRANDFATHER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Since you're awake, why not chant that poem Last Line: Where you chant your cavern poem over and over Subject(s): Family Life - China GRANDFATHER BRIDGEMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh, boys!' cried grandfather bridgeman, 'it's time before dinner today' Last Line: The old man fails never to tell you: 'you've got the french general's there!' Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; War; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDFATHER'S HEAVEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather told me I had a choice Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives GRANDFATHER'S HEAVEN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather told me I had a choice Subject(s): Family Life GRANDMOTHER POEM #2: EUNICE AND THE PLOWING BULL, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: On the farm we growed cotton for sale and corn Last Line: Walk down to the pond and wade into that green brown pool Subject(s): Farm Life GRANDMOTHER'S FRENCH HOLLYHOCKS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They were probably planted there by the gate Last Line: Fifty years later, I'm beginning to see %the value of grandmother's beautiful flowers Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GRANDMOTHER'S LAND, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: Hers is a land unsettled Last Line: In the distance %o welcome her children home Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRANDPA LEW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Glassed an eye that wasn't there Last Line: Remembered as %ornery Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRANDPA'S PICTURE, by PAUL DEAN RUFFIN Poem Source First Line: If the picture ever moved at all Subject(s): Family Life GRANNY'S HERB GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway, rosemary, marjoram and sage Last Line: To keep and tend a garden so the blooms stand tall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GRANOLA LOVE, by WILLIAM BORDEN Poem Source First Line: The poet in the next room writes a poem Subject(s): Family Life GRASS IS FULL, by PEGGY O'CONNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life GRASSLANDER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When I die %bury me on a south slope Last Line: Slumber until the ghosts call me %south Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GRATITUDE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you give thanks for this? --or that? No, god be thanked Last Line: Our very heart-beats praise the love that leads us. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Gratitude; Life; Love; Praise GRAVITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Carrying my daughter to bed Last Line: Once carried the weight of my life Subject(s): Growth; Life; Mothers And Daughters GRAY; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers GREAT AUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buns harden like pomanders Last Line: With harsh yellow soap Subject(s): Family Life GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soule ore-laden with a greater summe Last Line: My phœbus in his rest hath hid his heav'nly brow. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GREAT GRANDMA IDA, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village Last Line: Across the mediterranean sea Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness GREAT STAR FLYER, by RAE ROBINS Poem Text First Line: Here lies one who took her chances Last Line: Lived a sportsman to the end. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The GREAT-GRANDMA, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Back in a melon-pink Subject(s): Family Life GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Knuckles and knobs and half - obscured scars Last Line: Love flows through her arms. She is ageless, content Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call. Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics GREEDY TIME FEEDS ON ALL, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All; dying is nature's law, not nature's penalty Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Life Change Events GREEN APPLES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In august we carried the old horsehair mattress Subject(s): Apples; Summer; Family Life; Relatives GREEN COMBINE, by JANET KAUFFMAN Poem Source First Line: When you drive by in your green combine Last Line: And the things around here gone wild %gone to seed Subject(s): Farm Life GREEN DIAMONDS OF SUMMER, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: What I love in this isn't what you might think Last Line: And then I make dale throw me one more pitch, which I usually miss Subject(s): Baseball; Family Life; Sports GREEN FIELDS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this part of the century few are left who believe Last Line: And around him again were the last days of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Farm Life GREEN LANTERN BAR / EL PASO, TEXAS, by KELL ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Mamacita gives a plate of beans Last Line: It's about all he can say %and it's just about enough Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Ranch Life GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling Last Line: & my dove Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) GREEN PLACES IN THE CITY, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fill my heart with gladness, verdant places Last Line: We, by these glimpses, may remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life GREEN RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When breezes are soft and skies are fair Last Line: That won my heart in my greener years. Subject(s): Country Life; Great Barrington, Massachusetts GREEN-STRIPED MELONS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie / under the stars in a field Last Line: The sign of their ripeness Subject(s): Melons; Conduct Of Life GRENADIER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queen she sent to look for me Last Line: Nor thirteen pence a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics GRETEL, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Don't say, 'who can understand %this life' Last Line: Enough, and can find the path Subject(s): Farm Life GRETEL (II), by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: We are like two old miners Last Line: A red plane scoots over the trees %now, and disappears Subject(s): Farm Life GRETEL: A CASE STUDY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm all right in a small place %as long as I can turn around Last Line: No, not that %listen harder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The GRIMM BROTHERS' NEPHEW, by MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: In the tales, old women lust Last Line: A sudden blast of silence %before the infant's cry Subject(s): Family Life GROUND PLAN, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Wonderful if at our deaths some savior neatly clipped our souls Last Line: Made from the same tragical textures, %figures woven into ground Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self GROWING GRAY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little more toward the light Last Line: Belief with wishes. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Aging; Life GROWING OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I want to milk this old cow dry Last Line: Kicking and squalling Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GROWING RICH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why are you pale, my nora? Last Line: Are all upon my heart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Riches; Fortunes GROWING UP, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I no longer had to stand on chairs Last Line: Everything grew up but me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland GROWING UP WITH A SEARS CATALOG IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Omar pointed to a pink man Subject(s): Lust; Conduct Of Life; New Orleans GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee. Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight GUERDON, by LENA L. JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: I sat on the doorstone of heart's desire Last Line: My heart's desire is there. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GUIDANCE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Searching for a home Last Line: But I wouldn't put %it past my mom Subject(s): Family Life; Home GULF LIGHTNING, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the midst of the stars Last Line: Ah! To be nothing irretrievably! Subject(s): Life; Lightning; Noises; Universe; Lightning Rods GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines GYPSY KINGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in Last Line: One mentioned her own son Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Conduct Of Life GYPSY LADDIE (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas late last night when the landlord came Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life H-- LAUGHTER WAS BETTER THAN BIRDS IN THE MORNING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For s/he lives in the earth around us, laughs from the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Morning; Conduct Of Life H-- LAUGHTER WAS BETTER THAN BIRDS IN THE MORNING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For s/he lives in the earth around us, laughs from the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Last Line: Had I wist.' Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind HADLING LESSONS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: It easy he say %grab his tail with one hand Last Line: But he cant stop laughinh Subject(s): Country Life HADRIAN BEREAVED, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The white nile falls. Osiris dies Last Line: As I crown his tousled head Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why / is what I ask myself Last Line: I ride I ride Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction; Optimism HAG RIDING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why %is what I ask myself Last Line: Over the rump of the day and honey %I ride -- I ride Subject(s): Africa; Hope; Life; Self-satisfaction HAIKU, by NAKAMURA KUSADAO Poem Source First Line: Family reunion Last Line: Starting up in the trees Subject(s): Family Life HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn westward in Last Line: Will cross yours in passing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fast is the wind Last Line: To become slow? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIKU FROM THE MOUNTAINS, SELS., by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Subject(s): Ranch Life HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers HAIL TO MUD!, by FRANCES V. STEGEMAN Poem Source First Line: Come bend the knee to the fertile mud Subject(s): Farm Life HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The stronger swimmers coming after Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Customs, Social; Conduct Of Life HAILSTORM, by JR. COLEN H. SWEETEN Poem Source First Line: I remember the deafening roar Last Line: And find courage born of faith %not of understanding Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HAINAN NIGHT, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Old verses surprising me by a banyan tree Last Line: Not su dongpo in his tomb by the south china sea Subject(s): Family Life - China HALCYON DAYS, by MCMYNN ELIZABETH P. Poem Text First Line: A mystic calm broods over all the land Last Line: Your death is but the prelude to rebirth. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HALF BILLION - MORE OR LESS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I asked an agricultural economist how Last Line: At a population of twenty billion, more %or less Subject(s): Future; Life; Medicine; Physicians; Survival HALF-DREAM OF THE DOLPHIN, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: My sister tells me the portrait is free Last Line: Another moment, convincingly bright Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Photography And Photographers HALLOWEEN CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well Last Line: Take my secret thought to him and call him home again! Subject(s): Halloween; Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace HAMPER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It was old for it was there Last Line: Wandering over my shirtless body Subject(s): Family Life - India HANDBOOK OF TOBACCO-FARMING, by SHELBY STEPHENSON Poem Source First Line: Since there are no two tobacco-farmers in the world Last Line: Full of stubble %and slow man barbour's drawl Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking HANDFISHING RETABLO: 1, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leftover shoofly pie charred baby bed Last Line: Media naranja pray keep us in contact with our ground Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Knowledge; Life HANDICAPPED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a game of whist Last Line: Leading the mating instinct. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Games; Life; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HANDIWORK OF FLORA, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flora, well met, and for thy taken pain Subject(s): Country Life HANDS, by BARBARA CASTLE Poem Source First Line: High love and flaming passion will fall prey to time Last Line: But oh! I shall remember the kindness of your hands Subject(s): Life Change Events HANDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They were farmer's hands - sturdy, competent Last Line: Lifting a small boy down from a load of hay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Close to boiling water spilled Last Line: Burning now Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands HANDS OF CHRIST, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: A baby's hands in bethlehem Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HANDS OF CHRIST, by FRANCISCO E. ESTRELLO Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HANDSOME DAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Like a horny boar Last Line: To the banker's knife Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HANDY GUIDE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid adjectives of scale. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life HANGING COFFINS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Inside the witch-mountain gorges Last Line: Bleached bones in the mockeries of the river wind Subject(s): Family Life - China HANGMAN'S BALLAD [OR SONG] (2)., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hangman, hangman, slack up your rope Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin HANNAH, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on hooked rugs; my beds are covered with Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HANSEL, GRETEL AND RUBY REDLIPS, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The moon's a path Subject(s): Family Life; History HAPPY AND UNHAPPY FAMILIES: 1, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all happy families are alike Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HAPPY AND UNHAPPY FAMILIES: 1, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all happy families are alike Last Line: To deserve their happiness Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Family Life HAPPY AND UNHAPPY FAMILIES: 2, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to the director Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HAPPY AND UNHAPPY FAMILIES: 2, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to the director Last Line: Here at home, this winter, %we have no name for it Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Family Life HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: One afternoon while I was oever in the office Last Line: He had found over by gavilan Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HARBOR, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: In the misty harbor Last Line: In the thorny eden %of my reality! Subject(s): Harbors; Life HARBOR LIGHTS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARD DRIVE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway) Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill Last Line: Open underground. Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HARD LIVES, by MAIRI MACINNES Poem Source First Line: It was foggy and frosty, not a night to be out Last Line: As it wasn't for us, who weren't secretive, or starving Subject(s): Deer; Driving And Drivers; Life HARD MOVE, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: They had heard the news, and it was bad Last Line: Sometimes it's hard to tell a part of life, %and love, & 'goodbye' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HARD RED WHEAT, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: When it makes the shovel ring Last Line: Engraved in red gold he knows %today will make the shovel ring Subject(s): Farm Life HARD TIMES, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lousy job my father lands Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Relatives HARD WEATHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bursts from a rending east in flaws Last Line: The station for the flight of soul. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Weather; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HARDWEED PATH GOING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening, down into the hardweed Last Line: Hardening through the mind and night of the first freeze Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Farm Life HAREBELL AND PANSY, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the round throat her little head Last Line: And her eyes fill - for whom? Subject(s): Country Life HAROLD, A POEM; SUGGESTED BY READING BULWER'S LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Alone by luna's silver beams Last Line: Doth rule o'er england well Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio HARPALUS' COMPLAINT OF PHILLIDA'S LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillida was a fair maid Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Country Life HARPALUS' COMPLAINT ON PHILLIDAES LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Phyllida was a fair maid Last Line: Hath murdered with disdain Subject(s): Country Life HARPOCRATES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The message of the god I seek Last Line: "I am the truth that cannot change" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking HARVEST, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Text First Line: He spoke of harvest, pointed to the field Last Line: She smiled and brushed a happy tear away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers HARVEST, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The city guests leave %in cars they drive Last Line: The fields, the sleeping world, the milky way Subject(s): Farm Life HARVEST, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: East of the sun's slant, in the vineyard that never failed Last Line: From the thick harvest that was not mine Subject(s): Farm Life HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest moon is waning Last Line: Until the work be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty HARVEST OF SORROWS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When swift brown swallows Last Line: The sows will farrow Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes HASTINGS' SONNETS: 1, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old harry hastings! Of thy forest life Last Line: And echoes dancing round repeat their ecstacies. Subject(s): Country Life; Hastings, Henry (1551-1650) HAT ETIQUETTE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: There are rules of decorum and conduct Last Line: And never remove them sombreros. %all those in favor say, 'aye.' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HAUNTED BY WATERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You strive to roll your prose Last Line: And your murdered brother Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HAUNTED CHAMBERS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp-lit page is turned, the dream forgotten Last Line: Let us return, hear music, and forget Subject(s): Family Life HAVE A NICE DAY, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no I don't want my heart broken again today Last Line: For the sake of a kind word. Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Loss; Nostalgia; Quiet Life HAVE I NOT STRIVEN, MY GOD, AND WATCHED AND PRAYED?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Confessing me to angels and to men? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HAVING A LIFE, by ATAR HADARI Poem Source First Line: Having a life means love Last Line: And seeing the tea boil Subject(s): Life HAVING BEEN HER, by HETTIE JONES Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HAWAIIAN ZEN FLEAS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Miniscule bandits against spiritual sagacity Last Line: Give them your balls, %be above it all Subject(s): Family Life - India HAWK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He might have been carved, except I saw him Last Line: As evening spread its red tail on the water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HAWK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men have tried to be kind Last Line: And the hawk sweeps down and slays Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Life HAWSE WORK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail Last Line: Give me a day on the hawse work! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He had driven half the night Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had driven half the night Last Line: And damnit, that's just what %I've gone and done Subject(s): Farm Life HAY SCUTTLE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The holes in the floor of the barn loft Last Line: Only way out to the sun is down, %through the exquisite filth Subject(s): Farm Life HAY-MEAKEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis merry ov a zummer's day Last Line: The vo'k in haÿ-vield all day long. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Hay & Haymaking; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight HAYING TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Small creatures meet the judgment day Last Line: And this small world is upside down Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need the ceremony of one another, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Cats; Dogs; Food & Eating; Relatives HE, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: Has never written me a letter himself Subject(s): Family Life HE AND I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just drifting on together Last Line: For the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; July; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight HE HAS A KNIFE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: He watches lightning stall Last Line: Each spark is a thin & %hungry child, waiting Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Nature HE HAS COMPLETED HIS VOYAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: With their senses at peace, and their minds full of joy, they %make the forests holy Subject(s): Life Change Events HE IS RISEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not here,' the angel said Last Line: A life of spotless purity! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Resurrection, The HE PUT THE BELT AROUND MY LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For whom I must decline? Subject(s): Life HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage Last Line: Thy wretched life, ne do thy death profet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ballade: 6 Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Moon; Dead, The HE SAID TO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crawl toward the machine guns Last Line: Being a man. Subject(s): Army Life; Men; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HE SEES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: God sees beauty Last Line: On the gazelle's expectant throat Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HE TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Over thirty years I bin ranchin' an' I ain't seen Last Line: The both of them for now with it so close to bein' dark Subject(s): Ranch Life HE TOUCHED ME, SO I LIVE TO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To her imperial sun Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HE WALKS WITH HIS CHIN IN THE AIR, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life in you is an incurious madness Last Line: To serve our purpose here beneath the sun. Subject(s): Life HE WANTED TO LIVE HIS LIFE OVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What? You want to live your life over again Last Line: I'll pretend this bat is mine I'll climb in Subject(s): Life HE WANTED TO LIVE HIS LIFE OVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What? You want to live your life over again Last Line: I'll pretend this boat is my life ... I'll climb in Subject(s): Life HE WAS A VISITOR, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast flesh / as the song into the room is cast Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Books; Reading HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE WHO LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poignantly, the gothic arch Last Line: Lover, merge thee in the whole! Subject(s): Air; Heaven; Life; Soul; Sun; Paradise HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths Last Line: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love HE WORKED, by J. N. SCHOLES Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry HEAD OF THE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under his skin he wasn't brave at all Last Line: That no one guessed the lion was a mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEADING WEST ON I-70, MARYLAND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A rusty cow drifts across a green field Last Line: Dissolves into the static of the smoky hills Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Maryland HEALING, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine. Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures HEALING BEAUTY, by ETHEL B. CHENEY Poem Source First Line: These are the things that bring a man Subject(s): Farm Life HEARING MY FATHER DIED, by SUSAN LANDGRAF Poem Source First Line: We learned early: hide your skin like a lie Last Line: How to swim. I want to go naked Subject(s): Family Life HEART BEAT, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when I had more heartbeats left Last Line: Will find the heart that wants to go along Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Life; Time HEART O' THE NORTH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I come to the dim trail-end Last Line: Eternity passing over. Subject(s): Canada; Future Life; North, The; Canadians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEART'S DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You are my heart's daughter Last Line: You are my heart's daughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEARTBEAT OF THE WOODS, by ALICE DERRY Poem Source First Line: There's a grouse hidden somewhere inside Last Line: Lie in the clumps of phlox and primrose %their white blinding in windy sunshine Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Marriage; Solitude HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs HEARTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trinket made like a heart, dear Last Line: Over all the buried past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Parting HEARTSEASE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The far green westward heavens are bland Last Line: At every turn on every way. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature HEAVEN, by KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I am too little for a grand eternity Last Line: Too short yesterday! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of pure delight Last Line: Should fright us from the shore. Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired to go / where springs not fail Last Line: And out of the swing of the sea. Variant Title(s): Surcease;heaven-haven Subject(s): Christianity; Heaven; Life Change Events; Nuns; Sea; Paradise; Ocean HEAVIER, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: They waited for the man stretched out Last Line: On the pedestal of clouds Subject(s): Farm Life HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION PIE-EATIN' COWBOY OF THE WEST, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I just ate 50 pies - started off with coconut Last Line: Just surprise me with something new, sweetie %pie - like tangerine boomerang gooseberry! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HELEN, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I think now of helen, the bride Last Line: Just to get some rest Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HELEN GO MOTHER BETH, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was young once; and on poverty Subject(s): Life Choices HELEN KELLER, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the strength of ages in her face Last Line: Yet walking always in her maker's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life HELEN'S SCAR, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: Helen, my cousin, says she still has the scar Last Line: I did it; %and I don't even remember the plum tree Subject(s): Family Life HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Last Line: The least weird guy you know Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality HELLION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma poured carbolic acid Last Line: To the top of the crooked pine Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents HELP ME TO SALT, HELP ME TO SORROW, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moon-fade and the suns puppy breath Last Line: Give them to me Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives HELPLESS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O my household goods, and treasures! Last Line: And even hope will slip away Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio HELPSTON GREEN, SELS., by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life HEMISPHERES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the body you draw near Last Line: Only your mortality. Subject(s): Bodies; Relationships; Spiritual Life HEMLOCKS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poetry of hemlocks is deep and green Last Line: The quiet aisles are sanctuary Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hungers to whistle. She longs to hear a cry ring out Last Line: A straw mattress and an underestimated egg Subject(s): Farm Life HENHOUSE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hens, arriving early from the day's pickings Last Line: Her fluttering eyelids shutting out the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Hens; Roosters; Sleep HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 1. ICE PLANTS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I can say nothing Last Line: To be swallowed whole Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 2. RAINBOWS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: As if the storm were not enough Last Line: Or if we were meant to see Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER BODY REVEALED AT LAST: 3. BEFORE THE PLEATED WINGS OF SUMMER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Nothing is wild here, %but they push through Last Line: Her spriggy green gavot Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HER EYES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, long ago, a little one of mine Last Line: The christ-like candor of those early eyes! Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed HER SISTERS AGREE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: We called her kite, a bird of prey Last Line: We longed to believe %were protests Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One told me, heraclitus, you were dead Last Line: Death's hand, that plunders all, shall never close Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Life Change Events HERBERT WHITE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hit her on the head, it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Divorce; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness HERD LADDIE, by ALEXANDER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: It's a lang time yet till the kye gae hame Subject(s): Farm Life HERE AND NOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the heart of the world Last Line: Here, should we labor and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HERE AND THERE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the sorrow, the sighing Last Line: And there is our father and god. Subject(s): Life; God HERE COME THE MUSICIANS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cecilia, que pasa? What is this? Subject(s): Family Life HERE COMES FEBRUARY!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here comes that old hag, february Last Line: When she'll be gone and leave march in her place Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HERE I AM EXPOSED LIKE EVERYONE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: For loving a person more than things %for never wearing shoes %for hoping god will come down to comb Subject(s): Human Rights; Life HERE I SHALL WAIT, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: You were longing for me again today Subject(s): Farm Life HERE IN THE MARSHES, by ELISABETH G. PALMER Poem Source First Line: Here are cowslips wading Subject(s): Farm Life; Swamps HERE'S TO LIFE, by VIOLETA PARRA Poem Source First Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much Last Line: Thanks to life that has given me so much! Subject(s): Gratitude; Hearts; Life; Love HEREAFTER, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: There is so much of sorrow for us here Last Line: But have no memories nor future goals. Subject(s): Immortality; Life HEREDITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the family face Last Line: That heeds no call to die. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life Change Events; Heritage; Heredity HEREDITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead forefathers, mighty though they be Last Line: The board for thee is clean: write what thou wilt! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Life; Time HERITAGE, by ANITA SKEEN Poem Source First Line: Driving south on route 60 at dawn he would say to me Subject(s): Family Life HERMIT MONK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Because I was nothing Last Line: And flowers burnt in my eyes Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HEROES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I read of heroes, kings Last Line: "nor heroes, when they drew so near." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Saints; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heroes; Heroines HEROES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men, for the sake of those they loved Last Line: To him her best denied. Subject(s): Heroism; Life; Love; Heroes; Heroines HI AND WALTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: By his drawers, so itchy, roomy Last Line: Good companion like his hilda! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIDDEN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Our star but rose, again to hide Last Line: We may find perfect day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio HIDDEN, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: When the river flooded Last Line: A weed shakes, trapped beneath a bird Subject(s): Farm Life; Floods HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HIDE AND SEEK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child we played sometimes in the dark Last Line: When the game is over and we are put to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIDE AND SEEK, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, Last Line: "coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Games; Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HIGH AND HAUGHTY, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray, almost a spinster, gave up Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HIGH AND HAUGHTY, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray, almost a spinster, gave up Last Line: A white man called toward the house: %mister mitchell? %and ray became, %at long last, %a queen Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life HIGH OVER THE FARM SHOP THE SWALLOWS NEST, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: With gifts from the strange, quiet world outside Subject(s): Farm Life HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 2. THE GREAT ROAD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came up the narrow seas, as a flock it gathered thy / children Last Line: "what bearest thou?""—and the keel makes answer, ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Life; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HIJO QUERIO, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: Only my heart's weaving Last Line: Of my body, your sisters who may never learn %to tell time Subject(s): Change; Family Life HILL AND VALE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Day by day the man in the vale Last Line: And one to see his vale below. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life HILL FARMER SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the farmer, stripped of love Last Line: Over the grasses rough with dew %is, listen, listen, I am a man like you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life HILLSIDE FOSSILS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sea shells are bedded in the gray rock ledge Last Line: Their seal and symbol, and their sign and mark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HILLTOP FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: South hill in summer sun, dusted with gold Last Line: Title reverts to the returning trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HINC ILLAE LACHRYME, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Embosomed deep it lies, the fount of tears Last Line: And fruitfulness, and all that drowns dark death in life. Subject(s): Life; Love; Tears HIPPOLYTE AT BREAKFAST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has forgotten Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Family Life; Relatives HIPPOLYTUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great among men, and not unnamed am I %the cyprian Last Line: For when great men die %a mighty name and a bitter cry %rise up from a nation calling Subject(s): Country Life; Death HIRED GUNS, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: All night long they lay Last Line: The hay - for cattle Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HIRED MAN AND THE MAGIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After chores were done Last Line: Into his pocket the music went Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIRELING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cars pass him by; he'll never own one Last Line: Of a face splintered by life's stone Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life HIS BAG OF TRICKS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the playing cards' Last Line: He's almost got now %his white rabbit Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here I live with what my board Last Line: To very few, or else to none. Subject(s): Country Life HIS FATHER CARVED UMBRELLA HANDLES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghettos; Teaching & Teachers; Family Life; Poverty; Despair; Educators; Professors; Relatives HIS GAY RETREAT, by MARY FARRIES Poem Text First Line: Deep in a valley flanked by rolling hills Last Line: He sought his gay retreat -- found peace again. Subject(s): Country Life HIS HEART OF CONSTANT YOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn through his life, each word Last Line: And how he loves you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Youth HIS HEART WAS YOUNG; IN MEMORIAM, JAMES B. HAWKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: He was not old, although the fruited years Last Line: He lives, and still his spirit walks with me. Subject(s): Death; Life; Truth; Wisdom; Dead, The HIS HERITAGE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, you'll soon be leaving Last Line: And a little of his dad. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HIS LIFE WAS THE PRACTICE OF FORMING A SINGLE SENTENCE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Evolution and release: a full life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HIS MOTHER STERPPED ABOUT HER KITCHEN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Jews; Friendship; Bullies; Jobs; Relatives; Judaism HIS OWN EPITAPH, by MATHURIN REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lived a life was fancy free Last Line: I alwayes kept him out of mind. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight HIS OWNE EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe Last Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HIS REMEDIES AGAINST THE MISERIES OF MAN'S LIFE, by TIMOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consider well this truth, for 'tis of use Last Line: It may thy lesser ills alleviate. Subject(s): Life HIS SIMPLE CREED, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: He taught them his new simple law Last Line: And shall while life endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology HIS SPINE CURVED JUST ENOUGH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HIS STAR IN THE WEST, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our way star is onward, the world is yet young Last Line: Life beckons us on, and life always is young. Subject(s): Life HIS WIDOW, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wreaths shrivelled and froze upon his grave Last Line: And slept -- and snored a little... Life isn't so bad. Subject(s): Funerals; Life; Sleep; Widows & Widowers; Burials HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad Last Line: Finds country in the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails HISTORIC PUN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later,it had been Subject(s): Paris, France; Modern Life HISTORY OF A LIFE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day dawned; within a curtained room Last Line: Life, -- death, -- and all that is of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): A Life Subject(s): Life HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HISTORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers Last Line: It up, for what seemed like months or years Subject(s): History; Life HOBBINOL, OR THE RURAL GAMES, SELS., by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What old menalcas at his feast reveal'd Last Line: Great sultan of the vale Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Country Life; Games; Milton, John (1608-1674) HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOEING, by GARY SOTO Poet's Biography First Line: During march while hoeing long rows / of cotton Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOEING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During march while hoeing long rows %of cotton Last Line: Rose and fell from my chin %touching land %for the first time Subject(s): Farm Life HOGGEREL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: How many pigs %can dance on a pin? Last Line: Jump over the moon Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HOLD OFF SHE'S DRILLING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Army Life HOLDING ON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green fingers / holding the hillside, Subject(s): Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness HOLDING THE CUP, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In my rush to dress for your father's Last Line: His last gulp of air, his body embraced like a cup. %you were gathering up the pieces. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOLE IN THE GROUND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: What creature %tilled the grass Last Line: Always makes me wonder Subject(s): Country Life HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About my window in a wreath Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses HOLLOW THROAT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Jalalludin, what have you done to me? Last Line: As a current moved through my body %like god Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life HOLLYHOCK TEA, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: When I grow old, I'll raise turnips Subject(s): Farm Life HOLY HOUSE OF NAZARETH, 1635 - 1640, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The window above mary is mundane Last Line: A sunny swarm of love above his head Subject(s): Home; Religion; Spiritual Life HOMAGE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three-bladed, dunce-capped agitator pulsed Subject(s): Laundery & Laundering; Family Life; Relatives HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll HOMAGE TO QUINTUS HORATIUS (6), by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should shame or moderation set any Last Line: Bearing - as do all things beyond our %power to put right Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Family Life; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love HOME, by ALLEN C. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: If home is the body we live in Last Line: Leave nor anyone else enter Subject(s): Family Life; Home HOME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am home Last Line: (like here dog! Here dog!) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Loss HOME BEFORE DARK, by NATHALIE G. KETTERER Poem Source First Line: Standing in the hot summer silence Last Line: From the trees. %I must go back Subject(s): Family Life; Summer HOME COMING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: To the place of beginning, the old deed read Last Line: And look across the blue - green hills of home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOME FIRE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Whether on the boulevard or gravel backroad, Last Line: Of night, without waving or giving myself away, %and return with my words burning like a fire in the Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOME FROM TOWN, by DOROTHY WARDELL BOICE Poem Source First Line: The road from town was sweet with clover Subject(s): Farm Life HOME GROWN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Tenderly %finger lingering Last Line: Nothing beats home grown Subject(s): Country Life HOME MOVIE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the other end of a telescope, a long way Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Family Life; Movies; Cinema; Relatives HOME MOVIES, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The elms have to fight Last Line: Stomp-dancing out there on the lawn %where the living room used to be Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Family Life HOME MOVIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the children have changed! Rapt, we stare Last Line: To that calm light. The brief film ends Subject(s): Family Life HOME-FOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home-folks! - well, that-air Last Line: But you invite him, and he'll come. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives HOMEBUYER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so glad to be living in my own house again Last Line: And knows the value of a dependable truck. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Montana HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME Poem Text First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street. Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HOMESICKNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in a region of valleys fair Last Line: And die in the land where I was young. Subject(s): Death; Homesickness; Life; Youth; Dead, The HOMESTEAD ACT, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: For years my sleep was tormented with dreams Last Line: High altitude, high latitude, high interest ranching %came crashing down a no love for lincoln lane Subject(s): Homesteaders; Ranch Life HOMESTEAD IN HELL CREEK CANYON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Quiet %plenty to do %but %I write ma again Last Line: Split hoof %tiny blue petals %in the same track Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HOMESTEADERS, POOR AND DRY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: The world was bone dry Last Line: And he promised me %no fear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HOMETOWN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three pronged armory tower, the civic statue Subject(s): Home; City & Town Life HONEY, I LOVE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: I love %I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things Last Line: And honey, %I love you, too Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Family Life HONEY, IT'S SUGARLESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: She greets them with gum %& tourist chinese Last Line: Hobbling with american gum %stuck to their soles Subject(s): Family Life - India HONORS: 2. THE ANSWER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Last Line: My work, my work -- farewell! Subject(s): Death; Flutes; God; Honor; Labor & Laborers; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Work; Workers HONOUR, RICHES, MARRIAGE-BLESSINGS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ceres' blessing so is on you Subject(s): Life Change Events HOOVES OF TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: While I dream Last Line: The hooves of time are galloping Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOP PICKING IN KENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fine betsy the bunter from london Last Line: When they go hop picking in kent Subject(s): Farm Life;life; Agriculture;farmers HOPE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Out of the wreckage of my dreams Subject(s): Farm Life HOPE 'LEFT OR LEFT OUT', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Hope: brightest star, gleams out afar Last Line: If hope be left - - or is left out Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio HOPE AND FAITH, by ISAAC LEIBUSH PERETZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope! Not distant is the springtime Last Line: Will arise above our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Perets, Yitskhok Leibush; Peretz, Isaac Loeb Subject(s): Jews; Life; Spring; Judaism HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not that death of grief Last Line: And surely will uprise the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism HORIZONS, by CHRISTIE JEFFRIES Poem Text First Line: Where canyon walls of cities rise Last Line: Immeasurable and limitless. Subject(s): Cities; Walls; Urban Life HORNETS, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Stunned in the cold morning by the brush Last Line: And swarm the lamp till it went dark Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life HORSE, by FAYE KICKNOSWAY Poem Source First Line: He'd rent the horse and it sounding like it had asthma Last Line: As we walked in the slow dark %toward home Subject(s): Farm Life HORSE'S GRAVE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember bob-horse pulling Last Line: And a gap where the whins grew high Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HORSE-DOCTOR, by KATHERINE PIERPOINT Poem Source First Line: Little old man with a strong farmyard smell on him Last Line: Twenty different kinds of shit, at least Subject(s): Farm Life HORSEBACK ON THE LLANO ESTACANDO, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: The wind is the oldest river, rhythmic Last Line: Until the wind is a river no more Subject(s): Ranch Life; Wind HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Last Line: A song, whatever is said Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields HORTENSE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought each kiss a woman Last Line: Our passing fondness ended. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; Nightmares HOSPITAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Benign big blond machine beyond all price, Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air Last Line: That wove such a spell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses HOSPITAL'S RECREATION PROGRAM, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Even if my father loved music Last Line: And would occur within three months Subject(s): Family Life; Old Age; Religion HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOUR OF GOLD, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: O, not when purple curtains of the sky Last Line: Shall glow one hour of gold to light the closing way. Subject(s): Death; Gold; Life; Sky; Dead, The HOUR WITH YOU, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Like pretty birds %melodious words Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright stars came out last night Last Line: And passed into the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness HOURS OF RECREATION, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! That still inspires / and fans to flame poetic fires! Last Line: And time confirms the greatness of the great. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets HOUSE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The table, son, is laid Last Line: To sleep with body and soul Subject(s): Family Life; Food And Eating; Hunger; Poverty HOUSE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Should be more than %my grandmother's quilt Last Line: Raisins on the linoleum %make the house %the land of milk and honey. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET, by RODNEY GOVE DENNIS Poem Source First Line: She called me victor, which is wrong Last Line: Is trying to climb in through my window Subject(s): Life; Skating And Skaters; Sports HOUSE HOLDER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: To live within these bounds Last Line: I want to stand in that kitchen with the blue tile %and feel my mouth water Subject(s): Appalachia; Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love; Women HOUSE OF EARTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Infinity and dandelions Last Line: I shall explore Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOUSE ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the ragged source of memory Last Line: Generations lost to be found, %to be found Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOUSEHOLD OF EIGHT, by ABRAHAM REISEN Poem Source Last Line: But you sleep alone Subject(s): Family Life; Poverty HOUSEWORK, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through this window, thin rivers Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HOW ABOUT, by SHERYL LYNNE NELMS Poem Source First Line: The green screen door Last Line: Of her baby grand Subject(s): Family Life HOW AND WHERE?, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How are we living? Last Line: Expecting good things! Subject(s): Life HOW AUNT MAUD TOOK TO BEING A WOMAN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life HOW BARRE, VERMONT, WAS NAMED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if you've ever heard Last Line: "now barre is the name." Subject(s): Barre, Vermont; Mountain Life - Vermont; Towns HOW DARE THE ROBINS SING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At daybreak overcome! Subject(s): Life HOW I'D HAVE TURNED OUT, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Mother pours %mathematically precise Last Line: Petals, a river cresting %in our living room Subject(s): Family Life; Growth; Self HOW IT ADDS UP, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the day we swam in a river, a lake, and an ocean. Last Line: Of a crazy song Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Disappointment HOW JOHN QUITE THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody on the old farm here but mother, me and john Last Line: As you'd admit, ef you could see the way the crops turns out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Seasons; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids HOW LITTLE CURIOUS IS MAN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Six feet from where his grovelling feet do stand Subject(s): Life; Human Behavior HOW LITTLE OF OUR LIFE; AFTER READING OF THE EARTHQUAKES IN SPAIN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How little of our life this earth must hold Last Line: And go to gain the nobler heritage. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Dead, The HOW THE LIVING FIND US, by DANA LITTLEPAGE SMITH Poem Source First Line: First I learned a depressive's palate; burnt sage and umber Last Line: The rest was strict horizon Subject(s): Life HOW THE PAST INHABITS, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: When she was twelve, my mother Last Line: Frets daily over what she should eat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Past HOW THEY CONJUGATE 'TO HAVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of aspect wise Last Line: "that men may have me,"" answers he." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HOW THEY GOT HER TO QUIET DOWN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations HOW TO LIVE IN A TRAP, by ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: First, drag yourself and Last Line: In this somewhere: %interior, woman singing Subject(s): Change; Life HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HOW TO MAKE RHUBARB WINE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the patch some afternoon / in early summer, fuzzy with beer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOW TO MAKE RHUBARB WINE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the patch some afternoon %in early summer, fuzzy with beer Last Line: Bottled and ready for the years, %and smile. You've done it awfully well Subject(s): Farm Life HOWEVER FAR BACK YOU GO IN YOUR MEMORY, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your 'memory'? This will be you - the you that enters the %future and becomes a part of it Subject(s): Life Change Events HUBCAPS, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tractor runs over dirt and shapes it, turning Last Line: Old hubcaps burning all night in the creek Subject(s): Farm Life HUCKLEBERRYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let's go huckleberrying in the hilltop pasture Last Line: And spicy pink azalea and stiff hardhack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HUGH THORNDYKE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Egalton's hills are sunny Last Line: Are all we need below. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Work; Honesty HUGS AND KISSES, by LINDA MICHELLE BARON Poem Source First Line: Hugs and kisses and kisses Last Line: Makes me feel...Inside Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life HUMAN CONDITION, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a forest anywhere Last Line: There are these farms Subject(s): Farm Life HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Look at my continent containing Last Line: I've finished my lesson in geography. %look at my contained continent Subject(s): Human Rights; Life HUMAN LIFE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal, when he saw Last Line: The homes that were not destined to be ours. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HUMAN LIFE, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: Human life, a hundred years? Last Line: Till they were way past ripe Subject(s): Life; Zen Buddhism HUMAN LIFE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat Last Line: What the first sprightly running could not give Variant Title(s): Life [a Cheat Subject(s): Life HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom Last Line: Thy being's being is contradiction. Subject(s): Life; Mortality HUMAN LOT, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race HUMAN OUTLOOK, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These things shall be! A loftier race Last Line: For man shall be at one with god %in bonds of firm necessity Variant Title(s): The Coming Day; A Loftier Rac Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Life Change Events; Religion HUMANIST CREDO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where shall the human spirit turn Last Line: And bring world peace to birth Subject(s): Life Change Events HUNGER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Ah, my belly's empty Last Line: I could eat money Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger HUNGER FOR SOMETHING, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I long to be in the woodpile Subject(s): Life Choices HUNT, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: High country, man's country in october, hunter's acres Last Line: Prophecies of all things lost -- lost and never found again Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HUNTING AT DUSK, by DOUG COCKRELL Poem Source First Line: Before father shot the moon out Subject(s): Family Life HUNTING BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, we'll shoot the buffalo Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life HURRAH, HURRAH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A full moon rises Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives HURRAH, HURRAH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A full moon rises Last Line: Rufus never wears the uniform %again in his life. %a black man in france %wasn't the same %as a blac Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.' Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk HUSH, LITTLE BABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If that diamond ring turns brass Last Line: You'll still be the sweetest baby in town! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life HUSON BURYING GROUND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This stony catskill field along the huson road Last Line: Some part of ireland's in this huson ground Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HUSTLING GLAMBLERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you hustling gamblers Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life HYBRID VIGOR, by KATE BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: I counted once Last Line: When I said it is my hawk %watching from the tallest tree Subject(s): Life HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HARTFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, o god, the shepherd kings Last Line: Jehovah, god of all. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR OF BABYLONIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I pray unto thee, lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses! Last Line: O exalted ishtar, that givest light unto the (four) quarters of the world! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Spiritual Life; Women And Religion HYMN TO COLOUR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With life and death I walked when love appeared Last Line: And saw the dawn glow through. Subject(s): Colors; Death; Life; Love; Dead, The HYMN TO LIFE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool damp Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Hail to thee sun! Oh, list and stay thy course Last Line: Shouded for ever by the pall of night %no vestige left of thy refulgent light Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven HYMN: FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life nor death shall us dissever Last Line: Comfort ere we die! Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The HYMN: SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! Not, oh mother! Sounds of lamentation! Last Line: Strong was the word of god to succour thee! Variant Title(s): The Widow Of Nain Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship; Death - Babies I AM, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Mama is black Last Line: My age %and %sex %and %clarinet Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I AM, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: I am the sharp sensory smell of woodsmoke Last Line: I am alyce Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina I AM A SEA SHELL, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Put your ear to my lips and listen Last Line: I am a sea shell. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology I AM A TREE, by LUISA LUISI Poem Source First Line: I am a tree of strange stock, bound strongly to the earth Last Line: I am a tree of strange stock! Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Life I AM ALIVE - I GUESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which door is mine - and not mistake - %and try another key Variant Title(s): Poem: 470; Poem: 60 Subject(s): Life I AM ALWAYS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the toilet, the lid down Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives I AM KEENLY DISAPPOINTED. I EAGERLY AWAIT, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zug. / zumph. These words Subject(s): Farm Life; Comic Strips; Agriculture; Farmers I AM LEARNING TO ABANDON THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM LIKE A SCRAP OF PAPER STUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the tire keeps crushing / me to myself Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM MAKING A CIRCLE FOR MY SELF, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Grandpa perry is %surely %in Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I AM NOT A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I AM THE PLOW, by A. HEINRICH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I AM WALKING TO YOU NOW, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning for years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I ANONYMOUS, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not believe tithonus wished to go Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The I BELIEVE THAT ORDER IS BETTER THAN CHAOS, by KENNETH S. CLARK Poem Source Last Line: Tence of individual genius possible Subject(s): Life Change Events I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind, that sips the scald Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The I BORROWED FIRE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In chill sad times Last Line: Where can I borrow fire? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I BREATHED ENOUGH TO LEARN [OR, TAKE] THE TRICK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How numb, the bellows feels! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I CAME UNKNOWING WHAT THE LIGHT WOULD SHOW, by HARRY BELL Poem Source Last Line: Back to the real, indifferent dark again Subject(s): Life Change Events I CAN DO MY HAIR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I can do my hair short Last Line: I am in a rush. I want to be %the %best Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I CARE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I mourn the passing of condor great blue whale panther Last Line: I care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I COULD NOT DREAM, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: And drop this memory Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio I DID NOT ASK OF LIFE, by ALICE BAKER Poem Text First Line: I did not ask of life all that I wished of its rich store Last Line: No boon is worth the name, if not worth the asking. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life I DO REPENT ME OF DEPARTED DAYS, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My hopes that in no other temple dwell Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Repentance I DON'T KNOW, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I don't know where I'm from Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life Last Line: This is my dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in possibility Last Line: The spreading wide my narrow hands %to gather paradise Variant Title(s): Poem: 466; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion I EXCEED MY LIMITS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have tried an altenstil Subject(s): Conduct Of Life I FALL ASLEEP IN THE FULL AND CERTAIN HOPE, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds %of those I loved Subject(s): Life Change Events I GENITORI PERDUTI, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove-white gulls Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives I GIVE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: I give, bequeath, devote, devise Subject(s): Farm Life I HAD OCCASION TO TELL A VISITOR ABOUT AN OLD TRIP ... GORGES YANGTZE, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago I made that journey, fall rain coming down lightly Last Line: Sad memories held in my heart, truly from another incarnation Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life I HAVE A LITTLE SON WHO TALKS OF WAR, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I keep life's rendezvous Subject(s): Fate; Life I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve I HAVE GOT MY LEAVE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A summons has come and I am ready for my journey Subject(s): Life Change Events I HAVE HEARD THE CENTAUR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the centaur leaping at the sky Last Line: And felt winds blow from pastures wild and blue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I HAVE LIVED ON UNTIL NOW AS IF, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The last bright spot your red beret Last Line: Missing this once bright pain but not you Subject(s): Life I HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR YEARS AND DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope you'll forgive the black paint Last Line: The chocolate-covered cotton balls Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life I HAVE NO LIFE BUT THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The realm of you Subject(s): Life; God I HAVE SEEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I have seen and felt all these things - so I know what life is Subject(s): Life Change Events I HAVE SILVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have silver every day Last Line: Tap softly on my bedroom window Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I HAVE TALKED TO YOU, TALKED, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through life after life, %a virginal harvest for you to reap Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Krishna (god); Spiritual Life; Transcendentalism; Women And Religion I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mortality; Mourning I KNEW YES I KNEW, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I knew we must be parted - the future would bring Last Line: Just over the stream, on that beautiful shore! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio I KNOW OF PEOPLE IN THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If they this moment had Variant Title(s): Poem: 1665; Poem: 170 Subject(s): Life I KNOW THE RULES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I know the rules and I am what I am Last Line: Circle: %hold %and %hug Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I KNOW THERE WILL BE PEACE WHERE SILENCE IS, by CAROL GRIDLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I KNOW WE CAN G BACK SO FAR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We can go back so far Last Line: Smoke of burning plantations Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I LEAVE HER WEEPING, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave her weeping in her barred little bed, Subject(s): Daughters; Crying; Family Life; Relatives I LIKE TO FIND A PUDDING STONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to find a pudding stone Last Line: As sure as change Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LIKE WORDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like a gaudy word or two Last Line: And loving words that go unsaid Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LOVE YOU, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: In the woods Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life I LOVE YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In the love that makes us one Subject(s): Life Change Events I MADE MY BED, by ALICE LEE EDDY Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have made my bed; now I will lie Last Line: Perhaps you're wrong, -- perhaps, I like my bed. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature I MAKE POEMS, GENTLEMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers I MEANT TO HAVE BUT MODEST NEEDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All swindlers be infer Subject(s): Prayer; Life I MEASURE MY LOVE TO SHOW YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life I MISS THEE AT HOME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I miss thee at home - yes I miss thee Last Line: Till thou art again by my side Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio I NEVER LEARN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart was hurt too often Last Line: Or reaching for the stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed the car; and I Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Aging; Nature I OFTEN WISH THAT I COULD BE, by AFTON BLOXHAM Poem Source First Line: I often wish that I could be Last Line: Worth just the joy of having me Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I ONCE KNEW A MAN WHO HAD WILD HORSES KILLED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He had had wild horses killed one time and %they rode him to his grave Subject(s): Farm Life I PRAY YOU, WHAT IS'T O'CLOCK?, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life I PULLED ON THE REINS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lifting their arms to the moon Subject(s): Future Life I REMEMBER, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source Last Line: But I wish I remembered %what I forgot Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life I REMEMBER, by RICARDO SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: I remember a strong old man Last Line: I was submerged in prison Subject(s): Family Life I REMEMBER BEING BEAUTIFUL, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: My lovely, lineless face Last Line: Hello, good lookin'.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I REST IN OUR MARRIAGE, OUR JOUSTLING, by PEGGY O'CONNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life I SAW THREE TEMPLES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three temples, dead and desolate, Last Line: And all about them blooms the flower of death! Subject(s): Cities; Paestum, Italy; Temples; Urban Life; Mosques I SCHLUMP AROUND THE FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Checking the private lives of mice Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature I SEE A TRUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a truck mowing down a parade Last Line: Working for a living Subject(s): Cities; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers I STOOD WITH THE DEAD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with the dead, so forsaken and still Last Line: Fall in!' I shouted; 'fall in for your pay!' Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War I STUDIED LIFE; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I studied life in helen's look Last Line: Death has no countersign. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Life I SURMOUNT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain at fraud, believing Last Line: Giving as its reason that myself exists. Subject(s): Life; Self-reliance I THANK THEE, GOD, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: For light and life, for strength and work Last Line: I thank thee, god. Subject(s): God; Life I THINK I'LL TAKE MY SON AND DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think I'll take my son and daughter Last Line: But best of all for naps, sundown! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I THINK THE REAL COLOR IS BEHIND THE COLOR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Under that skin and under that %face %is the real %race Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I TOOK ONE DRAUGHT OF LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then handed me my being's worth - %a single dram of heaven! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1725; Poem: 39 Subject(s): Life I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill" Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean I WANT TO DESCRIBE MY LIFE IN HUSHED TONES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His nose stalks the air for newborn coffee Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps I WAS BORN TODAY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Every day that passes, you must say to yourself, 'I Last Line: Every day that passes, you must say to yourself, 'I was %born today!' Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Rebirth I WAS BORN., by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source Last Line: Shadow %of a greater one Subject(s): Family Life; History I WAS HARRIET, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: To %free %dom Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I WAS MADE OF THIS AND THIS, by GERTRUDE ROBINSON ROSS Poem Text First Line: (I was mad eof this and this- / and angel's prayer, a gipsy's kiss.) Last Line: The angel's prayer, or the gipsy's kiss! Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Family Life I WAS NOT AND WAS CONCEIVED, by WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD Poem Source Last Line: I am not and grieve not Subject(s): Life Change Events I WAS THE CHILD, by VALERIE S. WARREN Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life I WATERED MY HORSE AT A SPRING BY THE WALL; IMITATING THE OLD BALLAD, by YU SHI-NAN Poem Source First Line: We galloped our horses across river's edge Last Line: Yet by this I may repay him for a single meal Subject(s): Animals; Frontier And Pioneer Life; Horses I WILL NOT SAVE THE WORLD, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to cross Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The I WILL, I WILL NOT, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: In less pretty lives I plundered and razed Last Line: So willful, whose silence we render %with clamor, more air Subject(s): Army Life I WISH I HAD MORE SISTERS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sisters; Conduct Of Life I WISH I WAS A LITTLE SPARROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life I WONDER, by ELVA R. RAY Poem Text Last Line: To weave, whose shuttle's out of line. Subject(s): Life I WONDER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I wonder why you stay away! Last Line: We'll ever place your hand in mine! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio I'D LIKE TO TAKE LIFE BY THE THROAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees exult with color Last Line: And fight and scream and claw Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I'M A-WAITING AND A-WATCHING, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I'm a-waiting and a-watching for the day that has no end Last Line: For the glory that shall greet me, for the life that knows no death. Subject(s): Life I'M ONLY A WOMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I'm only a woman, and that's enough Subject(s): Human Rights; Life I'M SIXTY-TWO AND CAN DROP DEAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I kissed the river's cold moving lips Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self-gratification I'M SORRY FOR THE DEAD TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "go down the fields to ""hay" Subject(s): Farm Life I'M TEACHING SCHOOL, NOT DEAD, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some well-intentioned people ask Last Line: But I'm real careful about using the word never Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) I'M THANKFUL THAT MY LIFE DOTH NOT DECEIVE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Theyll lay another by tomorrows sun Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life I'VE LOST MY RIFLE AND BAYONET., by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Since I've lost you Subject(s): Army Life; World War I I'VE SEARCHED MY FACULTIES AROUND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then declare to man what god hath meant Subject(s): Life I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ICARUS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When my wings grow long Last Line: Some day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ICE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When friends no longer remembered Subject(s): Life ICE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The shabby pasture, bedraggled and brown Last Line: The wind is the bull in the china shop! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ICICLE, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I smacked you in the mouth for no good reason Last Line: Help both our lives by changing that act to this, %by handing you the ice, a gift, my brother Subject(s): Family Life IDEA: EIGHTH EGLOG, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepheard, why creepe we in this lowly vaine Subject(s): Country Life IDEAL LOVER, by STEPHANIE LEVIN Poem Source First Line: He knew how to get to me. He slunk Last Line: He always saved me for last Subject(s): Family Life IDENTITIES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: They bang seals %of embossed words on my passport Last Line: As to whose baggages they carry, %waking from body to body Subject(s): Family Life - India IDES OF MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The morning bonfire of the sun Last Line: For life is waiting with a sharpened blade Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Last Line: In cittie nor on hill, but all the night must sleep alone Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 8, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With lovely netehearde daphnis on the hills, they saie Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life IF, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life were never bitter Last Line: And wine were always iced. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight IF, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life were but a dream, my love Last Line: To suffer and to love! Subject(s): Life IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: If I hadn't become a cowboy's wife Last Line: If I'd stayed and lived down under %and not become a cowboy's wife Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life IF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Life; Love; Winter; Nightmares IF ALL THE SKIES WERE SUNSHINE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: In the quiet arms of grief Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Life IF CHRIST WERE HERE TO-NIGHT, AND SAW ME TIRED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And heaven will be of thy rich life a part Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion IF I CAN CHOOSE, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Choose the death by which I leave life Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Life Change Events IF I COULD ARISE AND TRAVEL AWAY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But he's done with the ten commandments Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Ten Commandments IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER UNTIL MORNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The flights of thought insomnia brings Last Line: Seem dull and ordinary! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the melancholy that is made Last Line: And something more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Forgetfulness; Jerusalem; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IF I HAD ONE I'D TRY IT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If you really must sort all your diamonds some day Last Line: But a real one will squeak when it's touched with %dry ice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF I HAD ONE THING TO SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see words effaced in the footprints of the conquered Subject(s): Creation; Life; Modern Man IF I HAD TO LIVE MY LIFE AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had to live / my life again Subject(s): Life IF I HAD TO LIVE MY LIFE AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had to live %my life again Last Line: Of bootprints engraved %upon new snow Subject(s): Life IF I HAD WORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had words, if I had words / at least to vent my misery Last Line: Or if I died I could but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The IF I LEFT, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: He'd sit at the bar Last Line: She drove him to it' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IF I SHOULD (TO CLARK KENT), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the darkest room Last Line: After me, leaping tall buildings? / you? Subject(s): Family Life; Superman IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE THE REST OF YOU, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But life goes on, %so sing as well Subject(s): Life Change Events IF I WERE QUEEN, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, boy, I wish I were a queen Last Line: You only have to ask me, eddie. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IF I'M TO ANSWER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I do not speak of the new %in the uproarious chatter Last Line: One last time to see me %as the evening sets to a murmur Subject(s): Family Life - India IF IT MUST BE, by MARTIN WYLDE CARTER Poem Source Last Line: Sun brightens stone %and all the river burns Subject(s): Life Change Events IF IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ART, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: How wonderful to roam Last Line: But it's also us %when we see Subject(s): Art And Artists; Life IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, by PAT D'AMICO Poem Source First Line: When I go to my final reward Last Line: Is sure to be organized neatly Subject(s): Death; Future Life IF LIFE BE BITTER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life be bitter and if death be sweet Last Line: Dim shadow-hordes, the mongols of the night. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mama / could see Last Line: Clean up your room Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Youth IF MY HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my hand believes Last Line: Each death affirmative Subject(s): Human Behavior; Death; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Dead, The IF NOT WITH HOPE OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And thy reward Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death; Heaven IF THAT BE YOUTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, I was young, and I was brave Last Line: That unawareness back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF THE ROOM IS SMOKY, by EPICTETUS Poem Source Last Line: Mind, the door is always open Subject(s): Life Change Events IF THE WORLD IS NOT TO LAST FOR EVER, by FREYA MADELINE STARK Poem Source Last Line: Of such a revelation, one may hope to be free for ever Subject(s): Life Change Events IF THEY HATE ME, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: I will %stay %right %here Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness IF THIS ALL, by ALBAN ASBURY Poem Text First Line: If this is all - one little ball Last Line: If life is only meat? Subject(s): Life IF THIS BE I, by BLANCHE FINKLE GILE Poem Text First Line: I love such different things now I am old Last Line: But he will chase cloud-shadows down the street. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Love IF WE BUT ONLY KNEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a verse and sent it forth Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Knowledge; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IF WE COULD BE BROUGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we could be brought to the surface Last Line: The fish that is our slippery life / and death Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life IF WE COULD HEAR WITH GOD, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: If we could hear all prayer with god Subject(s): Farm Life IF WE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life would be an easy matter Last Line: We could get there if we didn't have to eat. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Life IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things Last Line: If we had but a day. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF WE HAD THE TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had the time to find a place Last Line: If we had the time! Subject(s): God; Life; Soul; Tears; Time IF YOU ARE AKSED, by OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Tell them %your view has always been mullioned. Admit Last Line: You would have preferred to be misunderstood, tell them, %like this Subject(s): Life IF YOU CAN AWAKEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You need never leave home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature IF YOU GRAB A CHICKEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Will remain ten or more minutes as if %spellbound Subject(s): Farm Life IF YOU MADE GENTLER THE CHURLISH WORLD, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: If you have spoken something beautiful Last Line: If you have made gentler the churlish world. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the tomb's inward arch Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IKURA, by PRINCESS PETER-RABOFF Poem Source First Line: These small red-orange balls Last Line: To the land and animals Subject(s): Life IL PENSEROSO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence vain deluding joys Last Line: And I with thee will choose to live. Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Melancholy; Night; Dejection; Bedtime ILIAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False dreams, all false Last Line: When love's over, endures. Subject(s): Future Life; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Iliad; Odyssey ILLINOIS FARMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect Last Line: Dream of illinois corn. Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America ILLUD TEMPUS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in another life Subject(s): Life ILLUD TEMPUS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in another life Last Line: Of a tulip and warned us of the future Subject(s): Life ILLUSION, by ETHELYN HARDESTY CLEAVER Poem Text First Line: We are but travelers treading o'er a path Last Line: And makes life more worth living! Subject(s): Future; Hallucinations & Illusions; Life ILLUSION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thus it is with all that made life fair Last Line: Illusions vain, as any in the past. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Life ILLUSIONS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go stand at night upon an ocean craft Last Line: Sweep on serene the old unenvious stars! Subject(s): Life ILLUSTRATED LIFE, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: At woolworth's, in pittsburgh, one counter Last Line: Even if the panels stayed dark %and earthbound from dawn to dusk Subject(s): Life IMAGE OF A MAN, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into a tiny bay at loch roe, a tall yacht Last Line: Fumbled down and were furled for the last time Subject(s): Life Change Events IMMORTAL SAILS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold Last Line: While eyes meet eyes, and look their last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The; Paradise IMMORTALITY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: From your life's blood to coin a trenchant word Last Line: That sounds within the changing hearts of men. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IMPATIENCE, by MELANIE LILLIAN VAN DER TOORN Poem Text First Line: Now that you are gone Last Line: Then I'll march on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IMPERATIVE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers IMPERFECT IS OUR PARADISE, by JOY KATZ Poem Source First Line: An orange leaf on every finger bowl: a dozen tongues Last Line: The not desiring so much more than this: an orange leaf %on every finger bowl. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Oranges IMPOROMPTU IN EGO MAJOR, by HARRY ESTY DOUNCE Poem Text First Line: To err's divine! The gods came down to teach Last Line: I'll grub content among autumnal flowers. Subject(s): Life IMPROMPTU, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: On the heights of cumberland Last Line: Must wed the forest too Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IMPROMPTU, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I'm sad to night, for I remember Last Line: The wise have said before today Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IMPROMPTU TO OWEN MERIDITH, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I gaze upon thy picture here Last Line: As brightest star - I would hail thee Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IMPROVED FARM LAND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the monon Subject(s): Deforestation; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN 1864, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: While the younger daughter slept, she dreamt of mountains Last Line: Against dark velvet and black, black hair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IN A BALCONY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now! / not now! Last Line: Con. Kiss! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life IN A COUNTRY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I are inventing a country, which we Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN A FALLOW FIELD IN THE NORTH IS A PLOW THAT HURTS ME, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source Last Line: From a distant ancestor Subject(s): Farm Life IN A FORMER LIFE, by MARLENE PEARSON Poem Source First Line: As a salamander I think about sex Last Line: Alive, boys too young for sex Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life; Salamanders IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A MOOD, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Less stupid than I seem, less Last Line: Then what, and then again what, unfolded Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN A SNOW STORM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evanescent wonder of the snow Last Line: For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one! Subject(s): Death; Life; Snow; Dead, The IN A STRANGE CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness IN A SUNNY NOOK, by HANS VILHELM KAALUND Poem Source First Line: Gently illumined by the april sun Subject(s): Farm Life IN A TREE, by DIANE AVERILL Poem Source First Line: In late december, what used to be Last Line: My bright granddaughter, rippling in the limbs of her mother Subject(s): December; Family Life; Trees IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's an old man Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's an old man Last Line: You can see him %still rolling about in his sleep Subject(s): Farm Life IN ANDELYS: HAVE I LEISURE TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO POESY?: 16, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To see and know absorbs the whole of life's domain. Have I leisure Last Line: To poesy? The wish to see and know will have laid waste my life. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares IN ANDELYS: TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: 10, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the Last Line: Wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Paradise IN ANOTHER LIFE, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: I would have been the mother of twins Last Line: And nothing %is what I said I wanted Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Reproduction IN ANOTHER ROOM, by LULA BEHM Poem Text First Line: I shall not think of her at all Last Line: To wait me in another room. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN BARRACKS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barrack-square, washed clean with rain Last Line: Another night; another day.' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War IN BAY CHALEUR, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds no more in dooryard trees are singing Last Line: By bay chaleur. Subject(s): Chaleur Bay, Canada; Life IN BOTH THE FAMILIES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: We fit in Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Race Awareness IN CHAINS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blackguards and murderers Subject(s): Evil; Life Choices IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs; Railways; Trains IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Last Line: To the modest places which contain our lives Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs IN CHILDHOOD, WE DREAM IT INTO BEING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: At the end of my journey %there was a threshold Last Line: The gift that wants to be found Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN CITIES, BE ALERT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may hear that your heartbeat is uneven Subject(s): City & Town Life IN CITY PENT, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Far from the mountains and the meadows I Last Line: And leafy slumbers filled with pleasant dreams! Subject(s): Country Life IN CITY PENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet at this sweet hour to wander free Last Line: Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN CITY STREETS, by ADA SMITH Poem Text First Line: Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping Last Line: Through the peaty soil and tinkling heather-bells. Subject(s): Country Life; Homeless; Homesickness; London IN CLOVER, by ELISABETH G. PALMER Poem Source First Line: This hot day I lie in the grass Subject(s): Farm Life IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no terror sharp as the start Last Line: Nothing but splendor in that bright tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN DEFENCE OF THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So you're back from up the country, mister lawson, where you went Last Line: For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life IN EACH OF MY CELLS DAD AND MOM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel deep sympathy for my children Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Contrariness; Family Life; Nature; Parents; Psychology IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in rain I sat today Last Line: Is never far from sailing. Subject(s): Country Life; England; English IN ESCROW, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: We sold our truckee cabin Last Line: South, a little lower down Subject(s): Change; Life; Travel IN EVERYTHING I SEEK TO GRASP, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: A stubborn bow bent Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN FOR WINTER, OUT FOR SPRING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am the youngest so they call Last Line: We will all be %in for winter %very soon Subject(s): Family Life; Seasons IN GADARA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: We've heard about the loaves and fishes Last Line: But wilt thou give us swine? Subject(s): Life IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the Last Line: Ear! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs IN GRANDFATHER'S GLASSES, by PATRICIA PETERS Poem Source First Line: They cloud the mirror, when I put them on Subject(s): Family Life IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN HARBOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us Last Line: Outside? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN HARDWOOD GROVES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same leaves over and over again! Last Line: I know that this is the way in ours. Subject(s): Leaves; Life Change Events IN HELICON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In helicon, in helicon Last Line: Beware! Beware! Beware! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his hat on the table before him Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age IN JIMMY'S GRILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in blue-jean shorts\ Last Line: Where a beer gut rolls like a melon on the green pool table. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Country Life; Country Music; Sex; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IN LIFE'S TUNNEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Borne by a power resistless and unseen Last Line: When lo, the light! Subject(s): Life; Light IN LOVE'S ETERNITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body was part of the sun and the dew Last Line: As my love; and together we wept. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Love; Reunions; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise IN MEMORIAM, by DOROTHY WARDELL BOICE Poem Source First Line: You would have loved this day, could you Subject(s): Farm Life IN MEMORIAM, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life - length of days - the time to work and strive Last Line: An endless life in his eternal love! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Life IN MEMORIAM, E. H., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare Last Line: Honolulu. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Youth IN MEMORIAM: F.O.S., by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go a long and lovely journey Last Line: Far past the birthplace of the sun? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare and radiant life, whose mission here Last Line: To the full sunshine of eternal love! Subject(s): Death; Good; Heaven; Life; Praise; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long summer shadows calm the grass Variant Title(s): The White Room Subject(s): Family Life; Past; Relatives IN MEMORY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The brown eyes are closd and the sweet dewy breath Last Line: Then he will receive us in mansions at home Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IN MEMORY OF FRANKIE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: They tell me that our boy is dead Last Line: In robes that angels wear Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IN MY CHILDHOOD , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I awoke to my mother's voice Last Line: I am fighting panic that everything / does exist in itself alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Silence; Fear IN MY DREAMS, by ANNIE ELIZABETH LOOMIS Poem Text First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see! Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares IN MY FATHER'S FIELDS, by NANCY FROST ROUSE Poem Source First Line: Tobacco rows loom Subject(s): Family Life IN MY HEART, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: In my heart o how I've mourned thee Last Line: O'er flowing still my heart with thee Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IN MY PERGOLA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake Last Line: With every sun-kissed flower a smile! Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Lakes; Life; Paradise; Pools; Ponds IN MY VIEW DEATH IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE MANY KINDS OF TRAGEDY THAT, by CORLISS LAMONT Poem Source Last Line: Resources to come to terms with this fact Subject(s): Life Change Events IN NEW YORK, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: What shall I do in the city Subject(s): Farm Life IN NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the modern world, deformed and vast Last Line: The monstrous secret that propels the stars. Subject(s): Calvary; Life, Modern; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 5. HOME, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a need of silence and of stars Last Line: And then -- the summer stars . . . I will go home. Variant Title(s): Home Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Home; Life; Love; Silence; Belief; Creed IN NOVEMBER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the house the wind is howling Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN OUR CHILD HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Father .. Sorrow Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories IN OUR ONE FAMILY, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In our one family, around %this Last Line: We are trying for the %dream Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness IN PARENTHESIS: PART 1. THE MANY MEN SO BEAUTIFUL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The rain increases with the light and the weight increases Subject(s): World War I; Army Life IN PATHS UNTRODDEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To celebrate the need of comrades Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Soul IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IN PERU, THE QUECHANS HAVE A THOUSAND WORDS FOR POTATO, by G. C. WALDREP Poem Source First Line: I hold my cut finger to the ice water Last Line: Before climbing up the mountain Subject(s): Farm Life IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones IN PRAISE OF A COUNTRY LIFE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bliss which souls enjoy above Last Line: But happy he possesses more of solid life. Subject(s): Country Life IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the ingenious earth began Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN PRAISE OF SISTER, by W. A. FAHEY Poem Source First Line: None of my kids write poems Last Line: That's she, off naxos, surfing the wine dark sea Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Poetry And Poets IN PRAISE OF THE KING, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass round the bowl; the breeze of morn Last Line: The brazier of my thought? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN RE A GENTLEMAN, ONE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see it each day in the paper Last Line: Have mercy on 'gentleman, one'! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fates (mythology); Law & Lawyers; Life; Wine IN REAL LIFE OR IN THE THEATRE, by RUTH MOON KEMPHER Poem Source First Line: Of scotch, one runs across so many humbugs, if Last Line: In the liquid, limber, amber, is the scent of peat Subject(s): Life; Theater And Theaters IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN SEPULCRETIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not then enough that men who give Last Line: Not shakespeare's grave would scare them off with rhymes. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN SHUSHAN, by E. YANCEY COHEN Poem Text First Line: O'er lordly shushan's terrac'd walls Last Line: "of the deep-bosom'd, endless blue!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism IN SO DOING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The blue jay %takes flight %in the pine Last Line: (repeat as necessary.) Subject(s): Harvest; Life IN STONY COUNTRY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere else than these bare uplands dig wells Last Line: Pillows like these stones for dreaming of angels Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Sheep IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN THE ANCHOR TAVERN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: That next week, when I stopped in the anchor Last Line: Crashed into a hill. Walking dead man. %nome's walking dead man. There he goes' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Life; Nome, Alaska; Survival IN THE BEGINNING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This brings from the forgotten past a people whose lives Last Line: Toms home for a lard stand of honey to sop up with hot %biscuits Subject(s): Family Life; Home IN THE BLOOD, by C. J. BERKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm indian. %I know I don't look it Last Line: In a corner %of the attic Subject(s): Native Americans; Ranch Life IN THE BLOOD, by DAVID WELCH Poem Source First Line: Even before his father died Last Line: And the autumnal new moon %relaxing of shoulders Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Sons IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At last I stood in wonder Last Line: He could not read the tablet either Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN THE CITY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away from the silent hills and the talking of Last Line: And under her shadowed hair the gardens of paradise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE CORNERS OF FIELDS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Something is calling to me Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE CORNERS OF FIELDS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is calling to me Last Line: So sure of its life %that it peacefully opens its wings Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This life is sweetest; in this wood Last Line: Behind me creeps a groan or sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life IN THE COUNTRY IN LOVE WITH COLOR', by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source Last Line: In the country in love with color Subject(s): Colors; Country Life IN THE DARK (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earthly years we live Last Line: Has better things to give. Subject(s): Life IN THE DARK CITY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a harper plays Last Line: The passion and sorrow of the eternal doom? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE DEEP MIDNIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clanging, ever clanging Last Line: All want that was is peace ... All clanging rest! Subject(s): Bells; Life; Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of the porcelain department Last Line: It is not possible for me to make her happy Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Department Stores; Life IN THE DROVING DAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a pound, said the auctioneer Last Line: He can take me back to the droving days. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Hearts; Horses; Life; Nature IN THE EVENING OF LIFE, by BERTHA LEE REDMAN Poem Text First Line: Does it matter, dear god Last Line: Coming straight from the hand of love. Subject(s): God; Life IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Of course I'll come,' I answered Last Line: I think ignorance is punishment enough Subject(s): Ranch Life IN THE FARMHOUSE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaves moan, / clapboards flap Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE FARMHOUSE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaves moan, %clapboards flap Last Line: Rattling on the twelve lights of blackness Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE FOREST, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Was a path %which led on Last Line: Became a soundless vortex %moving through stillness Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean IN THE HAMMOCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the lazy, languid breezes sweep" Last Line: And fear forgotten dies Subject(s): Life;rest IN THE HEART OF EUROPE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers hereabouts, for generations now Last Line: Like love's delicacy or its quiet assurance Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Europe; Farm Life; Landlords And Tenants; Property IN THE HOME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing in thick clothes is Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives IN THE KING'S PRAISE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When louis the king is louis the man Last Line: Is louis the man, is louis the man! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN THE KINGDOM OF HIS SIBLINGS, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: It takes a long time to learn Last Line: The language of their souls Subject(s): Family Life; Pregnancy IN THE KITCHEN, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Always uncertain at first, slowly we circle, Last Line: I'll sweeten it with jam, and we'll let %the crumbs fall where they may. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love IN THE LISTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I choose the age and fortunate season Last Line: To thank me because I defied! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Fortune; Freedom; Life; Liberty IN THE MEADOWS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the summer meadows Last Line: But death is in the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fields; Life; Summer; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE MOTEL, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bouncing! Bouncing! On the beds Last Line: What a bang-up holiday! Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Family Life; Vacation IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek Subject(s): Modern Life; Time IN THE NEW SUN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filaments of light / slant like windswept rain. Subject(s): Industry; Conduct Of Life IN THE NEXT GALAXY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things will be different Last Line: Blue skies and drinking water. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN THE NIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are spirit presences Last Line: And sense the mist rising. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism IN THE OLD WAY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In the old way of men and women, we learn silence from our fathers. Last Line: Would my children run to me, %glad I've come out at last? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love IN THE ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The orchard shade invites you to its depths Last Line: Purple of grape and honey - colored pear! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN THE ORCHARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see Last Line: Ah god, ah god, that day should be so soon. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Orchards IN THE PASTURE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What am I supposed to put now Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE PASTURE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What am I supposed to put now Last Line: Down his wide throat Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE ROOM, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was down, and twilight grey Last Line: Of births and deaths and bridal nights. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Beds; Death; Life; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 20, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Die down, o dismal day! And let me live Last Line: O god, for one clear day, a snowdrop, and sweet air! Subject(s): Life IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so I closed that book, Subject(s): Books & Reading; Conduct Of Life IN THE STORM, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shining moments are so far between! Last Line: And this, too, ends. There is a certain end. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Storms IN THE TENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everyone wants to gaze on Last Line: Staring into the purple cleft, %waiting Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN THE TIME OF THE PLAGUE, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: Risk as adventure Last Line: Read keats. Slowly Subject(s): Ranch Life IN THE TUNNEL OF SUMMERS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from day into day Subject(s): Life; Summer; Mortality IN THE UPPER PASTURE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evergreen grove that abuts the pasture we are Last Line: Pitch-streaked and pleasured by this small thing we have done Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill-sides are dark Last Line: And a gift in our breath. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Woods IN THEIR TORN SHIRTS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Our fathers in their torn shirts Last Line: They circle the porch to catch us in the red Subject(s): Family Life - India IN THIS MIDDLE REALM, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Flawlessness of %ultimate being Last Line: Will take us to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TIME OF DROUGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thirsty earth Last Line: Roots stretch Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN TIME OF FAMINE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has no heart,' they said, and turned away Last Line: "to hear her brave sad laughter in the air." Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Famine; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares IN TIMES OF DAFFODILS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: (when time from time shall set us free) %forgetting me, remember me Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life Change Events IN TOWN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid' Last Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN TOWN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there's a willow budding Last Line: When's the next train out of town? Subject(s): Country Life; Railroads; Towns; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips IN TOWN, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: We dwellers on the city street Last Line: Or roof of thatch. Subject(s): Cities; Towns; Urban Life IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in the silent mind of one all-pure Last Line: I too but seem!' Subject(s): Life IN WHITE TIE, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life IN WILD PLACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beauty always grows in wild, untended places Last Line: All you need for harvesting is a seeing heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INCANTATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light as motion, people flit lightly along Last Line: To hold the golden light of winter dusk. Subject(s): Conversation; Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets INCIDENT ON LAN LI LAKE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Who is the fellow, sallow, skinny, perhaps a fisherman Last Line: Go now, poor birdie. Never come back this way. Never!' Subject(s): Family Life - China INCOMPLETENESS, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What soul hath struck its need of melody Last Line: Such dissonance can e'er be sweet, and how. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Life INCREMENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So populous the region Subject(s): City & Town Life INDIAN APRIL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allen ginsburg on a spring day you stopped Last Line: I hear you call: govinda, aaou, aoou! Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); India; Family Life; Poetry & Poets INDIAN GIVER, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, you have taken all you ever gave me Last Line: You cannot take away your gift of death! Subject(s): Death; Life; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDICTMENT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: All I want to know is whatever happened to experimenting with drugs sex Last Line: Ourselves let's stop this and start over let's go out let's keep going Subject(s): Adolescence; Life INDIVIDUAL HUMAN EXISTENCE SHOULD BE LIKE A RIVER, by BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Last Line: In this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the %things they care for will continue Subject(s): Life Change Events INDUSTRIAL LACE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city had such pretty clotheslines. Subject(s): City & Town Life INDUSTRIAL TEFLON COMES INTO DOMESTIC USE, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: After the wars were over, the ones people sang about Last Line: Sometimes, in spite of garden-smudged hands, %just to hold her Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Family Life; Teflon INDUSTRIALISM, by STEVE LANGAN Poem Source First Line: Out of my way, says the sunlight Last Line: Of watching her, learning how to sleep soundly Subject(s): Industry; Life INFANCY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father got on his horse and went to the field Last Line: And I didn't know that my story %was prettier than that of robinson crusoe Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Poetry And Poets INFANT NEPHEW, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: My zero, my thumbtack Last Line: My bit of chalk, my wrinkle, %my oblivious Subject(s): Babies; Family Life INFANTRY, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day these men ask nothing, and obey Last Line: They take their silent stations for the fight %rum's holy unction makes the dubious bold Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii INFATUATION WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: If it sin to love thee Last Line: And daring to be free Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio INFELIX, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the promise of my years Last Line: An exile lingering here. Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada Subject(s): Evil; Life INFERIAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, and the light and sound of things on earth Last Line: For all the darkness of the night and sea. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Spring INFERNAL SONET, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Which would provoke more joy Last Line: Of stuffing than your ass Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality INFIELD CHATTER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Pitcher shortstop %look at him Last Line: A better target %he going to Subject(s): Country Life INFINITE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've always liked this lonely hill Last Line: It is to shipwreck in that sea Subject(s): Disasters; Future Life; Shipwrecks INFINITY, by LILIAN B. FORDE Poem Text First Line: A dream once gave me to a forest tree Last Line: God is.—my vision found infinity. Subject(s): Life INFINITY, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: From time without beginning Last Line: In god's all-seeing care. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INFLUENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what mysterious power Last Line: May, for a time, remember me. Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Tears; Words; Vocabulary INFLUENCES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each separate life is fed Last Line: Converge to make us what we are. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life INHERITING MY GRANDMOTHER'S NIGHTMARE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the adhesiveness of things Subject(s): Grandparents; Conduct Of Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers INITIATION POEM FOR TWO VOICES, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You swear he gentle %hey relax Last Line: But she too smart to ride him Subject(s): Country Life INJURY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: My memory of my father is that he sat in the parlor Last Line: I suppose we were all happier in summer Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Memory; Pain INLAND CITY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: Moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life INLAND SEA-SHELL, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: Flushed with the heat of endless homely chores Last Line: The laborer to the feast his harvest yields. Subject(s): Farm Life; Shells; Agriculture; Farmers; Conchology INNER FLESH 3, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: When the sun is about to rise Last Line: In the midst of this vast world, %I think of life Subject(s): Life; Prisons And Prisoners INNER LIFE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jittery, sleepless, I hover over a chair Last Line: Silk crinolines, just when our eyes adjust to the darkness Subject(s): Insomnia; Life INSATIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot seem Last Line: Life, lift the cup, I am insatiate! Subject(s): Life INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE CEILING OF A BEDROOM, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily dawns another day; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Beds; Conduct Of Life INSCRIPTION ON A SUMMER-HOUSE; BELONGING TO MR. WEST, by GILBERT WEST Poem Text First Line: Not wrapp'd in smoky london's sulphurous clouds Last Line: And now the country, now the town, enjoy. Subject(s): Country Life INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs INSIDE DONGPO ACADEMY, HAINAN ISLAND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Inside dongpo academy, I'm surprised to see Last Line: Hermetic hollow, while the wind feels you the night through Subject(s): Family Life - China INSIDE MY HEAD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my head a common room, Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The INSOMNIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the dark they come Last Line: I beg them to let me sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house of sleepers - I, alone unblest Last Line: Oh, let me hot be last to fall asleep! Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness INSOMNIA AND THE SEVEN STEPS TO GRACE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the panther of the heavens peers over the edge of the world Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives INSPECTION, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! What d'you mean by this?' I rapped Last Line: "the race will bear field-marshal god's inspection." Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; War; Drills & Minor Tactics INSPIRATION, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life - death in a drop of dew Last Line: A whole round world for a thrush to sip! Subject(s): Dew; Life INSPIRATION, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: If you have somewhere Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life INSPIRATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you ask where nawadaha Subject(s): Country Life INSTANT KARMA, by BRAD DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Like a wool-capped and baggy cadre Last Line: Of forces logic deems prudent to elude Subject(s): Change; Children; Memory; Spiritual Life INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature INSURANCE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you insure your life it's a bet for your heirs, which you win by Last Line: Ity, in its own time. A bet in the dark, the beneficiaries always in doubt Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Insurance And Insurance Agents; Life INSURED, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I come home at close of day Last Line: If I some night should not come home. Subject(s): Family Life; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Relatives INTEMPERANCE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: There is a monster in the land Last Line: Of endless death and woe Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio INTENT ON GATHERING WOOL FROM HEDGE AND BRAKE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And faith--these only yield secure relief Subject(s): Farm Life; Children INTENTIONS FOR MY EPITAPH, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: The challenge is to be able to put your life Last Line: A writer of silence, I paid attention to the world Subject(s): Life Change Events INTERESTING TIMES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Everythings happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of comedy, the pivot of event Last Line: Everyone in a minute will be somewhere else entirely. As the crow flies Subject(s): Life; Iraq War (2003-2011) INTERIOR LANDSCAPE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Like a madwoman and almost alone Last Line: And through my thought crosses %a wingless 'what is it to me?' Subject(s): Human Rights; Life INTERLUDE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Today there is no noisy flight of wind or birds Last Line: Crumpling pale hepaticas in each chubby fist Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INTERMEZZO, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pomp, at the foot of her lacy bed Last Line: Johnny cowgill raced from the house %and into the rutted road %to give pomp a marble Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life INTERREGNUM, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant Last Line: Away from everything that moves with blood Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Modern Life INTERRUPTED MEDITATION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside Last Line: Someone gave the name, sometime, of pearly everlasting Subject(s): Disappointment; Nature; Life INTERVIEW, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Life that dies and that subsists Last Line: Any woman with child Subject(s): Family Life; Life INTERVIEW WITH ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: How did you fall? Last Line: Do you have any advice for the other girls? %I suppose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives INTERVIEW WITH HARA TAMIKI: 1950, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I: death / ht: death made me grow up Last Line: Ht: there is no shorter way home Subject(s): Death; Love; Life INTO SPACE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sad old world should jump a cog Last Line: While the stars looked on and wondered? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Stars; Sun; World INTO THE HEART OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am feeling my way into the heart of life Last Line: Soon or late! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Destiny INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-waif, half-woman, at fourteen norma Last Line: And the planter of wandering jew was a japanese microphone Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Women INTO THIN AIR, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: The expense of spirit is, in fact, what Last Line: (beating mind!) of how it will be to fade %into thin air! What expense of spirit! Subject(s): Bodies; Spiritual Life INTOXICATED, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine of life? I have drunk of it! Last Line: I do all! — I have drunk of the wine of life. Subject(s): Friendship; Life INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the time being Last Line: Feel something catch Subject(s): Conduct Of Life INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay Last Line: Fare you well. Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students INTROIT: AN ECHO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look and see the world is fair Last Line: Seeks us again, finds us again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVASION ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am pryterch. Forgive me. I don't know Last Line: The parched gate %you left open will never be shut again Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life INVASIONS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrupt presentiment of illness Last Line: Waking in a house you thought was yours forever Subject(s): Bodies; Sickness; Family Life; Aging INVESTMENT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Last Line: But get some color and music out of life? Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage INVISIBLE BODIES, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Turning the corner of the street Last Line: To the girl under the twirling parasol Subject(s): Cities; Life INVITATION TO PETERHEAD, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye, who for sweets that never cloy Last Line: Instruction, and the poet pleasure. Subject(s): Country Life INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'tis spring on wood and wold Last Line: And in the breast of man as well. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Seasons; Spring INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Last Line: I had the last word first remember %I'm going to keep things like this Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry And Poets INVOCATION BY A SMALL BED, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The water bubbles in the radiator. And the ebb and flow of the sea Last Line: I'm untouchable. And thrilled to learn there is no other way Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Life Change Events; Self-satisfaction INVOCATION OF THE DAWN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to this day! Last Line: Look well, therefore, to this day! Variant Title(s): Salutation To The Dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events; Sunrise; Dead, The IOWA FARMER, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I talked to a farmer one day in iowa Last Line: I could remember more familiar sights Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Farm Life; Iowa IRA AND KATE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: In spring I've seen him wiht a sowing bag Subject(s): Farm Life IRA WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THE MEETING, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When working on a small scale Subject(s): Corporate Life IRISH PROBLEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: He sings a verse Last Line: Only the plough complains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality IRON HEAVEN, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Today I saw a place no one has seen Last Line: Of the earth %and feel its wings of weakness Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life IRONY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IS HE DEAD?, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is he living, is he dead? Last Line: Whom the wind sped? Subject(s): Death; Life; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking IS IT A SMALL THING, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To have loved, to have thought, to have done...? Subject(s): Life Change Events ISHWARKE EVE (EVE SPEAKS TO GOD), by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: I was first Last Line: I was first %to know Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise ISLANDS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This gas station attendant Last Line: Seize the day fill up let go Subject(s): Family Life - India ISN'T MY NAME MAGICAL?, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: Nobody can see my name on me Last Line: Isn't your name and my name magic? Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life IT DEEPLY WOUNDS THE TRUSTING HEART, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By him who rules above Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God IT DON'T TAKE MUCH, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It don't take much to make men glad Last Line: That's all they need -- it don't take much. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT FEELS LIKE WE'RELIVING IN THE BIBLE, by JULIA WENDELL Poem Source First Line: Morning rain yammering Last Line: The lullabye of snow, & sleep Subject(s): Bible; Life IT FOLLOWS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had a lot of money Subject(s): Money; Surgery, Plastic; Life Choices; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts IT IS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is heart-rending to know a kiss Last Line: In each other's sight and touch Subject(s): Life IT IS BUT COMING AND GOING, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Depending on our singing Subject(s): Life IT IS COMMON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: So are the stars and the arching skies Last Line: "blessed be god, it is common" Subject(s): Earth;life; World IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO LOVE PASSIONATELY; YOU MUST ALSO LOVE WELL, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To forbear, to forgive, to console - that alone is the science of love Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Life Change Events IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will be what we could be. Do not say Last Line: Whatever our deserts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Climbing; Life; Truth IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: It might have been! We might have met Last Line: Through life - to dream what might have been Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF IN AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT WASN'T ME, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recall a miser's Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT'LL BURST INTO FLAMES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama was beginning to worry about me Last Line: As she walked the parapet again the sunset Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers IT'S GOT TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's got to be,' - like I always say Last Line: "as I say ""good-by! -- good-by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Dead, The IT'S JUST AN ORDINARY DAY, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my life and I'm strolling along Last Line: And wait twenty minutes. Then you can go on %with your life Subject(s): Boys; Life IT'S NO NOVELTY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: It's no novelty to see Last Line: And evaporating with a rush of english cloud Subject(s): Family Life - China IT'S NOT ME SHOUTING AT NO ONE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Before dawn, on the street again Last Line: To be alone Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary IT'S USELESS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: It's useless at this date Subject(s): Human Rights; Life IT?ÇÖS RANK IT CRANKS YOU UP, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships IVINGHOW HILL, by GEORGE ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Here, where three counties join hands in Subject(s): Country Life IVORY, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more mularkey, / no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: From the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events IVORY, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more mularkey, %no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: And no remarks %from the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivy lane in devon Last Line: That's the place for me! Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life J. PAUL GETTY III: TWO SONNETS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Italian flair of one dark moment Last Line: The fading sightless heir might hear %underneath the music with his remaining ear Subject(s): Life Change Events; Murder JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JACK PATTON, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: Jack patton, commander of rakers in the hay field Last Line: All my life remembering, 'if you do it, do it right.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JACK RUSSELL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: When uncle peter %went abroad Last Line: No kinder eyes, %the whitest coat of bones Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland JAKE, by EMILY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Can't leave for school without me when it's colder Last Line: I say to him you watch it he's my brother Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Family Life; High School Students; Teenagers JAMMING WITH THE BAND AT THE VFW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played old country and western Last Line: And rhinestone earrings, moving suddenly toward me. Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Country Dances; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets JANE REED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could forget,' she said, 'forget, and begin again' Last Line: "and she sadly said, at last, ""but what will become of john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The JANET, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The sunlight of her hair Last Line: While planting in the afternoon Subject(s): Plantation Life JANUARY, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mommy what's this fork doing? Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives JANUS, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the body we know Last Line: In every seed rising to death Subject(s): Bodies; Life JANUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee Last Line: God sings the lovely carol of the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight JASPER LAKE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Perched on a granite peak Last Line: As its mountain heads for the sea Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JE ME SOUVIENS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The laurentian bar %at chateau frontenac Last Line: To the siege of quebec. %je me souviens Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JENNER STONES, by DAVID WATTS Poem Source First Line: At jenner-by-the-sea we scurry Last Line: But the downward heft of sediment - and then %this blossoming! Subject(s): Life; Nature; Seashore JENNIE PUT THE KETTLE ON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street I have just left Subject(s): City & Town Life JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 39, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing in our street among the automobiles, horse? Subject(s): Horses; Modern Life JESSIE JAMES (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jessie james and frank %they robbed many a bank Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life JESUS PRAYING, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought the mountain and the loneliest height Last Line: Nor ceases yet for sinful man to plead, %nor will, till heaven and earth shall pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion JESUS THEY MADE FOR US, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy who drank his mother's milk Last Line: He swallowed the sea like a hungry whale Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JESUS WAS A HUMBLE MAN, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept. Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny JESUS' NIGHT OF PRAYER, by MARY L. SEWARD Poem Text First Line: Tis night! And weary eyes in slumber closing Last Line: "like him, unceasingly to ""watch and pray." Alternate Author Name(s): Mumford, Mary L. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry JIM, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: The road winds over hills Last Line: Then an explosion of wings %flies up in front of your face Subject(s): Farm Life JOACHIM, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The night glides, chill and murk, through paris. In its shades two Last Line: Steeped in tears, steeped in tears. . . . O those little broken cries! Subject(s): Life; Night; Paris, France; Bedtime JOAN OF ARC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Joan of arc spoke to me Last Line: To make me feel the flames Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JOB 38: 22-32. A LITTLE CLOUD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And elijah said unto ahab, get thee up Last Line: Canst thou guides arcturus with his sons? Subject(s): Country Life JOB 39: 5-25, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath Last Line: The thunder the captains, and the shooting Subject(s): Country Life JOB, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Subject(s): Country Life JOHN BARLEYCORN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three kings into the east Last Line: Ne'er fail in old scotland! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse JOHN CHAPMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The apple gospel that he preached Last Line: They called him johnny appleseed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JOHN CLARE, by TALVIKKI ANSEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spondee; name Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864); Death; Life; Love; Dead, The JOHN DEERE DREAMING, by JIM TEX RATHS Poem Source First Line: John deere dreaming - endless circles in the prairie dust Last Line: John deere dreaming on a hot summer day Subject(s): Ranch Life; Tractors JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great master of the poet's art! Last Line: Itself a canticle of love! Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Ocean JOHN REED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mist on the meadow below Last Line: I'll go to the village-store; I'd rather not talk with jane. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Spring JOHN RILEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On walking out one summer's morn Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life JOHN WALSH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange life - strangely passed! Last Line: " 'tis but the dross he throws away." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness JOHNNY-BOY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ive sixteen sisters more or less Last Line: "but a ""johnny-boy""—he counts a heap." Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Family Life; Youth; Half-brothers; Relatives JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers JOINING THE ARMY: A SONG, by WANG TS'AN Poem Source First Line: I follow the army to campaign on distant roads Last Line: Such decrees cannot be disobeyed Subject(s): Army Life JOKER'S PAY, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: If you can make a week-old prolapse seem Last Line: And take the laughter for your pay %because right now, tears are cheap Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life JONATHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was a small boy in a jonathan tree Last Line: The smell of the apple, tangy and crisp Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JOSEPHINE HALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: She got a good turn-out as funerals go Last Line: Crying come back, %come back Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JOTTINGS: THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vast is the city, concealing fires behind its walls, its Last Line: Tripping along, breathless, on the edge of the possible. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time JOURNAL ENTRY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Found this perfect pond %deep in the wood Last Line: In the soft mud %I felt at home Subject(s): Country Life JOURNALIST'S COMMUNION, by J. L. GARVIN Poem Source First Line: Therefore am I still %a lover Subject(s): Country Life JOURNEY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass Last Line: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life JOURNEY OF LIFE, by WINSTON CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Let us be contented with what has happened and be thankful Last Line: Accepted together. The journey has been enjoyable and well %worth making - once Subject(s): Life Change Events JOURNEY OF LOVE, by GLENN D. WOOLUM Poem Source First Line: There is a spot, unspoiled, where love is found throughout Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life JOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor souls, who think that joy is bought Last Line: Wake me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight JOYS OF THE COUNTRY: 4, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Lush lush, fragrant grasses in autumn green Last Line: Little boys know nothing of capped and robed officials Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Country Life JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs JUBILEE SONG, by JAMES NORTH Poem Text First Line: All hail to atlantic! This festival 'wakens Last Line: Move to the strains of the glad jubilee. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean JUDITH: JUDITH'S PRAYER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Lord, god of my father simeon Last Line: And that the race of israel %has you for sole protector Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JULY 2ND, 1916. BRITISH ATTACK ON THE SOMME, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: Six o'clock reveille: scramblers farm Last Line: Shielded by trees to he river Subject(s): Farm Life JUMP START, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: What I need is Last Line: Handed I feel my %strength return Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Life JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens JUNE, by BETTY ALICE ERHARD Poem Source First Line: June comes tripping over the meadows Subject(s): Farm Life JUNE 20TH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be born in one week Last Line: Into their temporary joy Subject(s): Birth; Family Life JUNE 21 1990, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wish I were in kotzebue Last Line: Forget the waiting permafrost Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JUNE AT WOODRUFF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at woodruff place - afar Last Line: Storied realm, or woodruff place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Nature JUNE BUGS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: June bugs careen %night after night Last Line: For warmth and light %they too expire Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JUNETEENTH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With her shiny black-patent sandals Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives JUNETEENTH, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With her shiny black-patent sandals Last Line: With the newpaper editor, %who lost his other ear %getting away from a lynch-mob Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life JUPITER, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: I want a perfect body, an orbit Last Line: Watching like assigned mid-wives standing guard Subject(s): Birth; Life JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States JUST ANOTHER SMACK, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schoolmaster auden gave them full marks Subject(s): School; Life JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on Last Line: Just as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World JUST IN CASE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Letters have upper and lower case Last Line: Can he solve the case of 'case'? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am your little grandmother Last Line: And fields to liverpool Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents JUST UNDER SKIN OF LEFT LEG, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark woman, camelia luna Subject(s): Conduct Of Life K IS FOR KINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Love's touch is soft, and death Last Line: David and solomon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Variant Title(s): Crowns Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KALIGHAT IN CALCUTTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Calcutta, India; City & Town Life KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KAROL'S KISS, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O karol, karol! Call him back again Subject(s): Country Life KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange. Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ... Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology KATHERINE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I am thinking of thee Last Line: Feel no more your fond embrace. Subject(s): Absence; Life; Love; Separation; Isolation KEEP CLIMBING, by ELIZABETH CUSHING TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is a ladder Last Line: If you will only try. Subject(s): Climbing; Life KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues KEEP EACH OTHER YOUNG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wife and I have kept our youth and kept it / pretty well Last Line: The way that we have kept so young is keeping young each other. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives KEEPING UP, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it I wanted to say Last Line: Driving me irresistibly forward, %falter, begin to fall finally behind? Subject(s): Life KEEPSAKE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Remember this quilt, my darling? Last Line: Embracing each other %and sleep Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina KEGLEY'S FARM, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, by ROBERT A. AYRES Poem Source First Line: Sunday, december 31 Last Line: Will you feel your toes numb in your boots %when you drive the pitted road to town? Subject(s): Farm Life; Virginia (state) KELLY'S LAMENT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I fear for my spring wheat Last Line: Surely the wheat will fail Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality KENTISH LINES IN WAR, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A saddle cornfield burnished van gogh-bright Last Line: And rides the evening on a loosened rein. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics KET THE TANNER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ket the tanner hath saddled his mare! Last Line: For rich men make merry, while poor men weep.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Sin; Widows & Widowers KEY, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY Poem Text First Line: They who have old houses should save the keys Last Line: Going in and out; -- as it was long before. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Keys; Relatives KEY EPISODES FROM AN EARTHLY LIFE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As surely as there are crumbs on the lips Last Line: I do not wish to speak to your machine Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life KICKING MANHATTAN TO PIECES EVERY NIGHT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A bottle of the red medicine to her blue lips Subject(s): Conduct Of Life KICKING THE LEAVES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each fall in new hampshire, on the farm Last Line: Three of us sitting together, silent, in gray november Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers KILLING THE ROOSTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The pullets were sleek and the cockerels Last Line: It is not easy to become a man Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life KILLING THE ROOSTER, by SHERYL LYNNE NELMS Poem Source First Line: Gramps held the rooster Last Line: And feathers %out among the rows of green onions Subject(s): Family Life KILLJOY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother and father Last Line: Artist / & / killjoy Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Suburbs; Anti-semitism; Family Life; Fathers KIN, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When news cane that yiour mother'd Last Line: As your own birthmark of his scream Subject(s): Family Life; Death Mothers; Relatives; Dead, The KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O white priest of eternity, around Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KINDNESS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kindness glides about my house. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Kindness; Family Life; Relatives KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists KING EDWARD VII, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: He died in harness': the impending stroke Last Line: Makes time obey him while he holds command. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KING EDWIN'S FEAST, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was feasting in the hall Last Line: "would to god that we might know!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great king harold harfagar Last Line: With loving kisses replying. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion KINGDOM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Where is the kingdom?' asked the pompous priest Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry KINGDOM COME, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held my breath Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives KINGS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, covet not the throne and crown Last Line: Outweigh the pomp of kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are not born kings, but are men renown'd Last Line: Chose first, confirm'd next, & at last are crown'd. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KINGS, TONIGHT, by RON CHAPPELL Poem Source First Line: The stove glows red Last Line: I need to know %about peru Subject(s): Ranch Life KINSHIP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great-uncle wilhelm, mennonite, patriarch Last Line: Curse them but don't die. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Food & Eating; Uncles; Relatives KISS OF ALLAH, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Alone in the desert sand Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life KISSES AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress, kiss me, clasp me, hold me close! Last Line: Life's day -- so brief, alas! -- excels the night. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Lips; Love; Dead, The KITCHEN MEMORY, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: My mother is peeling an apple over the sink Subject(s): Family Life KITCHEN RANGE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: What immense gratitude one feels toward life Last Line: To the people in whom I die, to where was born Subject(s): Family Life; Homecoming; Poverty KITCHEN SONG, by JEANNINE DOBBS Poem Source First Line: Trust a woman %to conjure joy out of pain Last Line: Here's a slice %of sun and a song Subject(s): Family Life KITCHEN TABLES, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: There were two, small one replacing large one Last Line: Roads that billow up dust behind you while your %mother and father sit at a small, round table Subject(s): Family Life KNOWING THE WORST, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning john, the granger, looked Last Line: Surprise you with a chortle when you're looking for a groan. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They list for me the things I can not know Last Line: What death shall mean, some sunny morn shall see. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Knowledge; Life; Dead, The; Belief; Creed KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism KNOWLEDGE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say they know many things Last Line: Is all that anybody knows. Subject(s): Life Change Events KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America KOBES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-eight Last Line: The echo rang wildly long after. Subject(s): Germany; Ghosts; Life; Secrets; Supernatural; Germans KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we live in the browning season Last Line: The dance of feathers, the dance of birds. Subject(s): Nature; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion KOSMOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Death; God; Truth; Dead, The L'ALLEGRO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence loathed melancholy Last Line: Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Night; Joy; Delight; Bedtime L'AMITIE EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should my anxious breast repine Last Line: Friendship is love without his wings!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life L'ENVOI, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word, Subject(s): Life L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Revolutions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LA BELLE ETOILE, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Oh, who will lodge at my inn tonight Subject(s): Country Life; Nature LA FOU ANGLAISE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Shakespeare misleads us in his parting scene Last Line: Mightn't have troubled his great-grandson's dreams Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LA LANGUE DES TROUBADOURS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Benvengut,' says a sign Last Line: Here they are heard no more. %adieu, adieu provence Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Provence, France LA NOCHE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind let loose in the dark Last Line: For the long journey across a room Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LA VILLE DU DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities of the plain Last Line: A paradise below. Subject(s): Home; Life; Love LA'A KEA FARM, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the certainty of jungle Last Line: Perfect for the picking Subject(s): Farm Life LABOR IS NEITHER BLOSSOMING NOR DANCING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: While I am laboring, he is at work Subject(s): Farm Life LABOUR, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And since to live men labour, only knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Farm Life LABOURER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he goes, tacking against the fields' Last Line: No, no, a man like you, but blind with tears %of sweat to the bright star that draws on you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World LADDERS, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filene's department store Last Line: Monkey? Girl? Answer me Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Department Stores LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you! Last Line: And I shall not blush in knowing that men call him lowly born.' Subject(s): Modern Life; Courtship LADY SAID:, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: The lady said: what are you going to be Last Line: To make it hard for her Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness LADY'S SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear Last Line: When pan, and his son, and fair syrinx, return Variant Title(s): The May Queen; Phillis Unwilling; The Beautiful Lady Of The Ma Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) LAKE BOTTOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Surely someone pouts there Last Line: The grasses that rush the shore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LAKSHMI, THE LOTUS-BORN; GODDESS OF FORTUNE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst rise like a pearl from the ocean Last Line: Hearken, o lotus-born! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology LAME ONE, by SHERWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: At night when there are no lights my city is a man who arises from a Last Line: My city is a murmur of voices coming out of a pit Subject(s): Life; Neighbors; Old Age LAMENT (OF ONE OF THE OLD REGIME), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O the times will never be again / as they were when we were young Last Line: "to show the ""march of mind." Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Lament; Life; Poetry & Poets; Youth LAMENT FOR MELIBOEUS, by THOMAS WATSON Poem Source First Line: O tityrus, thy plaint is over-long Subject(s): Country Life LAMENT FOR TALL SHIPS, by ROBERT L. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Tall ships! Tall ships! Subject(s): Farm Life LAMENT OF 'THE OTHER WOMAN', by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Your wife don't understand you Last Line: Your lies ain't worth %a can of snuff! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina LAMENT TO THE MAKERS, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not bird not badger not beaver not bee Subject(s): Dunbar, William (1465-1520); Family Life; Relatives LAMENTS AND SAYINGS: CHIME AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This little chime they play, matinal, wandering, revives they vanished Last Line: Fresh heart of morn? Subject(s): Bells; Dawn; Hearts; Life; Sunrise LANCER, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I 'listed at home for a lancer Last Line: Oh who would not sleep with the brave? Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics LAND MINE TREATY, by KRISTIN BERKEY-ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: I'd like to have a baby Last Line: No one who will risk that %explosion Subject(s): Farm Life LAND OF DROUGHT, by MAXAMED CABDILLE XASAN Poem Source First Line: All these were mine Last Line: A place where teeth will find no food to chew Subject(s): Farm Life LANDSCAPE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And as within a landscape that doth stand Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life LANDSCAPE IN SPRING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a pickup my brother and me Last Line: Work in dust, get up in dust. Beer makes it go Subject(s): Farm Life LANGUAGE OF FOSSILS (VANTANGE, WA.), by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: This desert is a plateau of light Last Line: It will become an opal %with a woman's soul Subject(s): Family Life; History LANGUAGE OF STONES, SELS: 1. THE STONE WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I came here from a far place Last Line: A swollen unmoving grief Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LANGUAGE OF STONES: SELS: 2. THE STONE WHO KNEW EVERYTHING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I've got it here, inside Last Line: They will take my silence %for wisdom Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LANTERN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hours late and afraid to go in Subject(s): Family Life LAPSE OF THE YEAR, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring am I, too soft of heart Last Line: All is gained when all is lost Subject(s): Life Change Events LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through many years my heart goes back Last Line: And take the grateful love, wherein I hide thy praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Past; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) LAS TENDEDERAS/ CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: About how much debris time & distance %have kicked up into my eyes Variant Title(s): Clothesline Subject(s): Animals; Clothing And Dress; Family Life; Slaughterhouses LASCA, by FRANK DESPREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want free life, and I want fresh air Last Line: In texas, down by the rio grande. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LAST ACT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: A hundred times you wanted to think about the eye Last Line: The sect of creation as creator %existing through sight Subject(s): Creation; Eyes; Life; Light LAST BORN, by JUDITH KIRKWOOD Poem Source First Line: Drunk %you move Subject(s): Family Life LAST BREATH, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Breathe! I demanded, like when you had your babies Last Line: Breathe, it's up to you to keep her alive Subject(s): Air; Breath; Life; Travel LAST CRICKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The cricket that survives the early frost Last Line: Beneath her dark inevitable wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAST FRONTIER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Having passed over the world Last Line: To the palaces of night and the peaks ringed with fire, %without hope Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LAST HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the last sweet harvest of the year Last Line: The gray sky thickens and I feel the threat of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAST JUDGMENT, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The chorister crippled all summer Last Line: All the villages are in heaven %gathered around the steeple Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day LAST MONTH, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives LAST NICKEL RANCH: PLAINS, MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the living room of the trailer, the father of the woman Last Line: Into the pines. Subject(s): Montana; Prayer; Ranch Life LAST NIGHT, by MILDRED ANN HOBBS Poem Source First Line: When in the dark last night, against the Subject(s): Farm Life LAST OF MY CHINESE UNCLES ENTERS THE GATES OF HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my mother, unable to weep, grieves for the dead Last Line: Weep, my hands shout. %weep and live Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Mourning; Uncles LAST REVELATION, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Within this strange tenebrous shell Last Line: And deep-sequestered soul of him. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The LATE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those perishing gentians splashed by moonlight and wind Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives LATE FEBRUARY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The first warm day, Subject(s): Country Life; Winter LATE SNOW STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This storm that steps upon the heels of spring Last Line: Earth stirs and stretches from her winter bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LATE VISIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The words were lost and then the voices failed Last Line: And grateful draw the sod about the shoulder. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Dead, The LATE WINTER ON CAPE COD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Blackbirds this evening, %so many of them massing Last Line: A thousandfold and black-leafed, %the red-wings pause Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland LATE WINTER SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These small sierras sawing at the sky Last Line: Let's hope spring cleaning comes when spring %commences! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LATE WISDOM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the roof, the sky expands Last Line: Of long ago. Subject(s): Life; Tears LATENT LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though never shown by word or deed Last Line: Not what I am. Subject(s): Life; Death; God LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans; Urban Life; Latinos LAUGHING LIFE CRIES AT THE FEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come with me, for I am best Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Transience LAUGHTER OF THE WAVES, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life LAUGHTER WILL RISE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some things endure. Be comforted Last Line: Some things endure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 9. GOING TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the sun has dried on hedge and furze Last Line: And biddy enters lisnamoy in pride; Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Festivals; Poverty; Fairs; Pageants LAVA, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source First Line: All that I loved, I've killed Last Line: Drowned deeper and deeper by the lava %of my words Subject(s): Death; Life; Volcanoes LAW OF THE EARTH, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child weeps bitter tears reading about the de- %struction of the city Last Line: Earth, he hates the law of the earth Subject(s): Life LAWN LESSONS, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Lord, how we laughed Last Line: Why they thought being wet %would matter to those dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life LAWRENCE, by ANNE SLADE Poem Source First Line: Lawrence lives down the valley Last Line: He swears all you ever need in life is patience %and the right place to wait Subject(s): Ranch Life LAY OF THE CID: ARRIVAL OF THE FAMILY AT VALENCIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When that career was ended, from the steed the cid got down Last Line: God they praised with hands uplifted for that good prize and great Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Family Life LAY OF THE CID: DAWN IN THE TOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now the dawn was breaking and morning coming on Last Line: And but a little remnant were left in castejon Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor And Laborers; Towns LAYS THAT PLEASE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In other days the poet's lays Last Line: Are those that grow in henneries. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers LAZARUS (1ST DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour Subject(s): Time; Life LE BONHEUR DE CE MONDE, by CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN Poem Source First Line: A voir une maison commode, propre & belle Subject(s): Country Life LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery LEAD MARE, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: That woman there %she can be a lead mare Last Line: Just like they do %at the ranch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEAF PILE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now here is a typical children's story Last Line: The mark of my hand a blush on my son's cheek Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sons LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: As a jack-o'-lantern Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons; Fall LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: Listen, you tell me, listen, %we are making a shelter inside you Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons LEAFLETS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big star, and that other Subject(s): Modern Life; Poetry & Poets LEAFLETS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big star, and that other Last Line: To invent what we need Subject(s): Life, Modern; Poetry And Poets LEAFY WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will your mind for ever go Last Line: For leafy warwickshire! Subject(s): Country Life; Warwickshire, England LEAN DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean down and lift me higher, josephine! Last Line: And lean, and lift me higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Soul; Youth; Optimism LEAN YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thanks be for small and sour fruit Last Line: All creatures will be met Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LEARNING EACH ONE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: For so late in the year, the air in the city felt warm Last Line: We would finish it all Subject(s): Life LEARNING OUR PLACES IN THE HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jon dumas wanted to be a throne, %a fiery wheel Last Line: Sister angelica kept pointing to, %insisting that, that was god Subject(s): God; Heaven; Life; Religion LEARNING TO TALK, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See this small one, tiptoe on Last Line: When we go down, they will be tall ones Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events LEARNING TO TALK, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See this small one, tiptoe on Last Line: When we go down, they will be tall ones Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events LEAVE THIS WORLD, NATURE SAYS, AS YOU ENTERED HERE, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The order of things: it belongs to the life of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Life Change Events LEAVING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: You were hanging diapers Last Line: That can remove all the stains Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do Last Line: We had no time, of course, we have no time %to do all the forgiving that we must do Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship LEAVING CORKY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I stand with the car door open Last Line: Leaving corky %im too sad to cry Subject(s): Country Life LEDA 3: A PERSONAL NOTE (RE: VISITATIONS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always pyrotechnics; / stars spinning into phalluses Last Line: Or don't come. Subject(s): Leda; Mythology - Classical; Solitude; Spiritual Life; Loneliness LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air %which moves the grass Last Line: From their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEGACY, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Though I am gone form here Subject(s): Farm Life LEGACY, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had a rich old great-aunt Last Line: May she rest in heaven! Subject(s): Country Life LEONARDO, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Whether for love of flight or liberty Last Line: He bought caged birds only to set them free Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LEOPARD LIVES IN A MUU TREE, by JONATHAN KARIARA Poem Source Last Line: Resuscitating himself Subject(s): Farm Life; Leopards LESSING TABLE, by ADA LIMON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner table was too small Last Line: Do something, do something Subject(s): Life; Solitude LESSON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In her genteel way Last Line: Momma didn't know about %black %lace! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina LESSON, by WAYNE NELSON Poem Source First Line: He was grouchier than usual that day Last Line: Sour chuckle as he says to my big brother: %'he ropes like ma fishes' Subject(s): Ranch Life LESSONS IN THE INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not flame but %red in the trees and burning Last Line: My once round mouth an echo, hardened Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LEST ANY DOUBT THAT WE ARE GLAD THAT THEY WERE BORN TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without the date, like consciousness or immortality Variant Title(s): Poem: 1156; Poem: 119 Subject(s): Life LEST THOU FORGET IN THE YEARS BETWEEN, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hearing the infinite whisper there Subject(s): Marriage; Memory; Life; Religion LET ME DIE A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source Last Line: Not a curtains drawn by angels borne %'what a nice way to go' death Subject(s): Life Change Events LET ME LIVE, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What saies my brother? Last Line: To what we feare of death. Variant Title(s): Life And Death Subject(s): Life LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: En las manos de nuestro amor Subject(s): Farm Life; Social Commentary; Relationships LETTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have sold the stars haver and charles scratched Last Line: Inside and out of the empty echoing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could only hear the chatter Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel 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 FLORIDA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is lotus land, ripe with the fruits of summer Last Line: Stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER FROM HOME, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sends me news of bluejays, frost Last Line: Drift scraps of borage, woodbine, rue Subject(s): Family Life LETTER TO A CITY UNDER SIEGE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning the pages of the book you have lent me of your wounded city Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): City & Town Life LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LETTER TO A.D. HOPE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Sir, pardon this unheralded address Last Line: I am your servant and disciple Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: 4, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father took me as far as he could that summer Last Line: A good teacher, a brother Subject(s): Farm Life LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: 5, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was the year, too, of the labor troubles on the rigs Last Line: And cut for home across a the river quarter Subject(s): Farm Life 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 IBRAHIM, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the joke, right? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full 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 LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The 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 LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward even when the day leans down Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime LEVELS, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: One can get used to levels, - he can see Last Line: May wake no step along the even floor. Subject(s): Life LEX TALIONIS, by FRANCIS MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy crept out of the old box log Last Line: "and his hate kept hot, as it ought to have done." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Boys; Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Relatives LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Last Line: Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel LIBER QUARTUS, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor will ingenious women, free from pride Last Line: That parents nature is most prevalent. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Family Life; Pride; Women; Relatives; Self-esteem; Self-respect LIBERATION, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART Poem Text First Line: At midnight came a cool wind from the west, after days Last Line: The shadow of death has passed; now I can plant new seed in a living womb. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers LIBRETTO, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night is dark %on the streets without names Last Line: The saxophone plays it for somebody else. %play hell Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Night LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 2, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The city is so kind to me Last Line: Or is it just -- the city? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades" Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Let the soul its slumber break Last Line: "alas! Before it bids us wake, / ye disappear!" Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIFE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! I know not what thou art Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The LIFE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Alas poor life, no more will I Last Line: From this intestine warre, & I shall live. Subject(s): Beauty; Contrariness; Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, believe, is not a dream Last Line: Can courage quell despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Variant Title(s): Good Cheer Subject(s): Hope; Life; Optimism LIFE, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, comrade of a night Last Line: My champion, death! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O life of man, if life 'tis meet to call Last Line: With zigzags of the will, and kindly oneness marred. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each creature holds an insular point in space Last Line: Of god's calm angel standing in the sun. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, I breathe thee in the breeze Last Line: My love for thee, and thine for me? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude - life is inviolate solitude Last Line: But for the life that is better than life. Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness LIFE, by ELIZABETH ROOSA CODDINGTON Poem Text First Line: I snatched the sparkling cup of life Last Line: And slowly sipped; and lo, the very dregs were sweet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Wine LIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain Last Line: And thought suspended lie in rapture's blissful trance. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think ye the joys that fill our early day Last Line: But what still deepening clouds of care survive! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The quality of life on earth Last Line: That looks for better after death? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Our life is like a cloudy sky, midst mountains Last Line: Which is the future life beyond the grave! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by HENRY DENISON Poem Text First Line: Ah, when the gentle breath of spring comes Last Line: Its bars asunder, and its music ends. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked no other thing Last Line: "that we can show to-day?" Subject(s): Life LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superiority to fate Last Line: Subsists till paradise. Variant Title(s): Poem: 621;poem: 687 Subject(s): Life LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our share of night to bear Last Line: Afterwards—day! Variant Title(s): Poem: 621;poem: 687 Subject(s): Life LIFE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: To be, or not to be,' is not the question' Last Line: Is swallowed up in immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LIFE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in Last Line: And that is life! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The tides of life ebb to and fro Last Line: To souls of men below. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A train of gay and clouded days Last Line: Escort us to a little grave. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by AMBROSE JULIAN FAHY Poem Text First Line: I drift along the tide of life Last Line: And cries, then silence stills them all. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A child is born Last Line: On the stone of the door-sill Subject(s): Death, Return From; Future Life; Soldiers LIFE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When the first chime they said ''tis christ in manger laid --' Last Line: Then soon the great bells toll for a departed soul. Subject(s): Bells; Life LIFE, by WAYNE GARD Poem Text First Line: Life is like a wayside bloom Last Line: Finds nectar for her pains. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold us toiling up a mountain side Last Line: Flit by — and life is done. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time I watched he lifted his shirt Last Line: I'd forgotten, the high of living %with the faith you know precisely how you'll die Subject(s): Life LIFE, by JOSEPH GLADDEN HUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In some misty eon past Last Line: War, and pestilence! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE, by MARVEA JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Life is like the purple shadows Last Line: But not stains, when life is done. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Life is %a ray of hope Last Line: Breeds a ray of hope Subject(s): Life LIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life? What is life but fleeting bliss Last Line: For aye, and aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Life; Transience; Impermanence LIFE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life is but a toy that swings on a bright gold chain Last Line: And lets the watch run down Subject(s): Life LIFE, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers sleep in the eastern glow Last Line: The tumult of the tide? Subject(s): Life LIFE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life feels like a mouse Last Line: Thrill more than flight, song, stream or wood! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Life LIFE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a star, or to a fire Last Line: This is the thing we know as life. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O life! What is thy quest? - what owns this world Last Line: Eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Life LIFE, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is life! A dream within a dream Last Line: And when the goal is won the grave appears. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: You struck a match and its flame blinded you Last Line: And pain made you forget what you were looking for Subject(s): Fire; Life LIFE, by EMILY OREDSON Poem Text First Line: Eternal strife is on Last Line: Finds a sublimer goal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bring you flaming sun from out the east Last Line: What yesterday I brought and took away. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life! Ay, what is it? E'en a moment spun Last Line: Life! Ay, at best, 'tis but a mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Life LIFE, by BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS Poem Text First Line: They found him asleep in the oaken shade Last Line: What mother's child had come home to rest. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE, by THOMAS HENRY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no pause, no break in life Last Line: And life drives on -- span yet on span. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: Some dance Last Line: Command. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Little friend, %still alive Last Line: Lift the dry world's lever, %be all and all the corpse's lover Subject(s): Life LIFE, by SHIN DONG-JIP Poem Source First Line: Is life tainted? Last Line: Over my shoulder in the distance %perhaps wind ripples in joy Subject(s): Life LIFE, by SHIN TONGCHUN Poem Source First Line: Just one single touch Last Line: This is what life is like Subject(s): Life LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who think this scene of life Last Line: Unaided by abuses. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Life; Nature LIFE, by MRS. F. S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: We enter life's vale like the rising sun Last Line: And cross the bar and yield to fate. Subject(s): Aging; Life LIFE, by ANN STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For what do I live? Last Line: The glorious abandonment of love! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life's not our own, - 'tis but a loan Last Line: An angel calls. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the plum - tree lifts its ivory flower Last Line: Somehow, somewhere to seek the spring again! Subject(s): Aging; Change; Life LIFE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like a stately warrior horse Last Line: Breasting the waves with an unsanded bow. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by KATHRYN RICH TICE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday - I met her, with her gladsome Last Line: It this be life, it still is death, to all the joys we know. Subject(s): Life; Weariness; Fatigue LIFE, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To exalt thyself all life exalted deem Last Line: That holds the trembling universe in awe. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, like a marble block, is given to all Last Line: That the night cometh wherein none shall see. Subject(s): Life LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the dark we grope along Last Line: Which led us to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Soul; Stars; Universe; Ocean LIFE, by J. A. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Ah, such is life! Last Line: Ah, such is life! Subject(s): Life LIFE, by GERTRUDE P. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Often our building blocks of life Last Line: For you will find them there. Subject(s): Life; Past LIFE (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me, in the midst of dateless centuries Last Line: Eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life LIFE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The power that lifts the leaf above Last Line: And makes it heavenward grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life LIFE A VOYAGE, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a perilous voyage. Tempest-tossed Last Line: For one sole harbour, underneath the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Life LIFE AFTER DEATH, by MARY BAINE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The pharaoh was buried with a hundred Last Line: Later, on their way to the baths Subject(s): Future Life LIFE AFTER DEATH, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them the sun shines ever in full might Last Line: Burned for the glory of heaven continually. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise LIFE AFTER FICTION, by CATHRYN ESSINGER Poem Source First Line: What becomes of the people Last Line: Us some morning in the elevator? Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Life LIFE AND DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is the life of man? Last Line: A spirit's joy which death can never kill Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIFE AND DEATH, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: If death should come with his cold hasty kiss Last Line: That it shall be as wonderful as life. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Death preys on life Last Line: That we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, then, is life, - what death? Last Line: Death but the pause between. Subject(s): Death; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come into the noisy world Last Line: The distant purposes of god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye who see with other eyes than ours Last Line: "in god's bright mirror cleared from mortal breath!" Subject(s): Life LIFE AND DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is life, father? Last Line: "and god is over all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: Life has been unkind Last Line: Created by the futility of death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is not sweet. One day it will be sweet Last Line: Asleep from risk, asleep from pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life LIFE AND DEATH, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of death beside the lonely sea Last Line: Life is the sovereign presence everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Life LIFE AND DEATH: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O solemn portal, veiled in mist and cloud Last Line: That must be somehow best that comes to all. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or endless sleep 'twill be, - and that is rest Last Line: Into the unknown, air on golden wing. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Future Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 3, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death be final, what is life, with all Last Line: A few more inches to a coral-reef. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If at one door stands life to cheat our trust Last Line: Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 5, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in all facts of sense life stands revealed Last Line: Her microscopic eye in vain dissects. Subject(s): Life LIFE AND DEATH: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, heralded by reason, faith may tread Last Line: And all the oracles are dumb and blind. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Soul; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 8, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for a rapture unalloyed I ask Last Line: To aid the larger life that may survive. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND HOPE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet, seer, philosopher, or friend Last Line: Far off events beyond the gates of death. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Optimism LIFE AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and I are lovers, straying Last Line: And plight troth with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Flowers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed LIFE AND ME, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only a bystander Last Line: In these lines. Subject(s): Absence; Life; Separation; Isolation LIFE AND TIMES OF SKIN-GIRL, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: She decided to follow the gods home Last Line: The god being %one who never turns around Subject(s): God; Loss; Love; Spiritual Life LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Ask much of life Last Line: Her golden key. Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE CONCISE, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: One day, one line, a thumbnail equilibrium Last Line: How much, for he was mentioned on page one Subject(s): Life LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows on the wall Subject(s): Life LIFE DRAWS A TREE, by ROBERTO JUARROZ Poem Source Last Line: And the tree of death Subject(s): Life; Summer LIFE EFFECTUAL, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Slender lily smooth and white Last Line: Calmly silvering to its goal. Subject(s): Spiritual Life LIFE EXPLAINS AND DEATH SPIES OUT, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Reality gathers %my papers Last Line: From my house, my bed, my body %and from my soul Subject(s): Life; Reality LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE HAS ALWAYS YELLED AT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That's what I think she says Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Idleness; Labor And Laborers; Life; Nature LIFE HIDDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and lilies grow above the place Last Line: Her spirit is at peace where angels kneel. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Peace LIFE IN DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He should have followed who goes forth before us Last Line: August 2, 1891. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the dread day that calls thee hence Last Line: Crowns it eternal and divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The LIFE IN ITSELF IS NEITHER GOOD OR BAD, by MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Poem Source Last Line: In it, it lies in your will not in the number of years whether you %have had sufficient life Subject(s): Life Change Events LIFE IN LACONICS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Given a roof, and a taste for rations Last Line: "shrink away with the whisper, ""we're in the wrong place." Subject(s): Life LIFE IS A SUMMER'S DAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is gone Subject(s): Summer; Conduct Of Life LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, / if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, %if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Last Line: Such abundance. We are gorged, engorging, and gorgeous Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE IS GROWTH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is growth, and growth is change Last Line: Thou, who makest all things new! Subject(s): Life; Wheaton Seminary, Massachusetts LIFE IS JOLLY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This life is jolly, o! Last Line: This life is jolly, o! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life LIFE IS LIKE A GOLDEN LYRE, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: Life is like a golden lyre Last Line: To bring forth perfect harmony. Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments LIFE IS NOT WHAT YOU, by SHARON DOLIN Poem Source First Line: Expected cows Last Line: Dive-bombing your head when the breeze %lets up Subject(s): Life LIFE IS STRUGGLE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wear out heart, and nerves, and brain Last Line: That keeps us still alive. Subject(s): Life LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never look behind Last Line: Behind. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a jest Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Life LIFE LOOKS ON DEATH, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Tonight I sit alone with my dead love Last Line: In fright that wondrous life should lose itself. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE OF BRIAN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Brian, employed in saudi arabia, favours %rigorous laws Last Line: Yes. Quite soon. When I'm feeling up to it Subject(s): Biography; Life LIFE OF THE MIND, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: She sees sky from his bed, red Last Line: All offers of a better life Subject(s): Life; Past; Reason; Relationships LIFE ON EARTH, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Auto parks in layers show off the light Last Line: A power surges through everything, %no rest for the living, work barely begun Subject(s): Automobiles; Labor And Laborers; Life LIFE ON THE LAKES: ORDERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: It is in or out as the orders send Last Line: To the weathered wharves of the grey old town. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Memory LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees paint their reflections Last Line: In a little yellow book Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Mississippi River; African Americans; Relatives LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees paint their reflections Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE, by MARK CONWAY Poem Source First Line: Why do we stay here, sleeping on a dwarf Last Line: Missed. I live here anyway, in a landscape Subject(s): Life; Prairies LIFE OR DEATH, by EDMUND BOLTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth life survive the touch of death? Last Line: And doubt before the light shall fly. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE OUT OF DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I've said all I would, mother Last Line: "heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LIFE OWES ME NOTHING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "life owes me nothing. Let the years / bring clouds or azure, joy or tears" Last Line: "while life is mine, I'll find it good, / and greet each hour with gratitude" Subject(s): Life LIFE REMOVED, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How tranquil is the life %of him who, shunning the vain world's uproar Last Line: To the soft, tuneful sound %of zither touched by fingers' s kill profound Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Calm; Life; Peace; Rest LIFE STORY, by JOE CISLO Poem Source First Line: Join the army,' my grampa said Last Line: Finding a clean, quiet place to do my thing Subject(s): Biography; Idleness; Life; Youth LIFE STORY, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: When I read to the wolf boy Last Line: The rain isn't falling - %it is cleaved Subject(s): Life; Story-telling LIFE STUDY, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Here is a woman on a bus Last Line: She gets off at the next stop Subject(s): Life LIFE SURVEYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a close and bounded atmosphere Last Line: To yield is to resemble. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life LIFE THAT WAS BORN TODAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy blessed face to see Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Mortality; Heaven LIFE WE HAVE IS VERY GREAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Reduces it to none Variant Title(s): Poem: 1162; Poem: 117 Subject(s): Life LIFE YOU SAVED, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The day your friends jumped into the pickup, Last Line: I had forgotten how good the air tastes %when we think it's our last breath. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LIFE [AND THE FLOWERS], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a posie [posy], while the day ran by Last Line: It be as short as yours. Variant Title(s): Life Subject(s): Life; Posies LIFE'S A DREAM, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Truth - and let us then restrain %this the fierceness of our pride Last Line: Nothing is, but all doth seem - %dreams within dreams, stil l we dream Subject(s): Life LIFE'S AUTUMN, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: In spring the trees were fresh-a dainty green Last Line: To seek the infinite the while we live. Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Life Change Events; Longing; Nature; Seasons; Fall LIFE'S BOUNDARY, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a glass wherein we dimly see Last Line: That bounds the dim perspective of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S CHANGES, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is full of sighing Last Line: Though oft we see it not. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S COMMON THINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The things of every day are all so sweet Last Line: The common things of life are all so dear? Subject(s): Life LIFE'S CURTAIN, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL Poem Text First Line: Gently it lifts - / and a world of surprise Last Line: Is the same one which falls when in death they close. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S GREETING, by ARTHUR LESLIE GREEN Poem Text First Line: At my good inn, the world, you may have rest Last Line: Death waits, and for thy room another guest. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S HARMONIES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no man pray that he know not sorrow Last Line: Are found in the minor strains of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S INCONGRUITIES, by EGBERT PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Green grows the laurel on the bank Last Line: Too much of joy would wean from heaven. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S LIKENESSES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is - what? Last Line: He struts in brav'ry for a span, %and is forgot Subject(s): Life LIFE'S MAZE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy in the light Last Line: Clouding all the morrows. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight LIFE'S MEDLEY, by PHILITAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest friend, no tears for you: much good befell Last Line: You living, and some ill, god's gift as well. Alternate Author Name(s): Philetas; Philitas Of Cos Subject(s): Life LIFE'S MIRROR, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave Last Line: And the best will come back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Human Behavior; Virtue; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIFE'S MORNING, NOON, AND EVENING, by AUDRA POWELL COTTRILLE Poem Text First Line: Dawn breaks, soft breezes blow, 'tis morning time of life Last Line: Submerged in faith, then sink to rest in twilight's holy calm. Subject(s): Day; Life; Spring LIFE'S MYSTERY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's sadly solemn mystery Last Line: And know that love is wise. Subject(s): God; Life; Love LIFE'S MYSTERY, by SHELDON DARLING Poem Text First Line: On yonder hillside grows a single flower Last Line: But coins the good to emphasize the loss. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S ODYSSEY, by HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Life's stream cast him upon its rippled beach Last Line: Unruffled, one with the all-embracing sea. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S PAST AND FUTURE, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Text First Line: Did I exist before my birth?' Last Line: I'll do again. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Mystery; Child Birth; Midwifery LIFE'S PATTERN, by VERDA BORISFIELD Poem Text First Line: I wove a pattern for my life Last Line: Grey threads of pain. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE'S PATTERNS, by MARGARET ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Life is a loom, and we are the weavers Last Line: And gold threads of love be woven through all. Subject(s): Life Change Events LIFE'S PROGRESS, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How gaily is at first begun Last Line: Leave following crowds behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Life LIFE'S REPETEND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye forget the blossom-time Last Line: In circling home to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The LIFE'S SALUTATIONS (FROM AN ALBUM), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This earth resembles a highway vast Last Line: Compelling our sad separation. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World LIFE'S TRAIL, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Far, far away, I see a long trail Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LIFE'S TRIUMPH, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Text First Line: Each life has one grand day: the clouds may lie Last Line: But sometimes, somewhere, it will surely come. Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Life LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: As those who rest from toil we end our years Last Line: "light breaks, god lives! Love reigns eternally." Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S WEB, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Yes gather up the broken threads Last Line: And yet - we can't forget Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio LIFE, A QUESTION?, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life? And worth living? Subject(s): Life LIFE, FR. THE ABBOT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth! Thou wear'st to manhood now Last Line: But as senseless, false and hollow. Subject(s): Growth; Life LIFE, I AM YOURS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, I am yours, and I shall ever be Last Line: For I am yours, life, and shall ever be! Subject(s): Life LIFE-CRYSTALS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of crystals. Swift or slow Last Line: To mingle evermore with his own light and love. Subject(s): Life LIFE-PHILOSOPHY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly to wait whatever chance may give Last Line: And the skies fall. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Time; Destiny LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LIFERS, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The new steelworker Last Line: Let themselves become veterans Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Steel LIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Light is the life of all my thoughts Last Line: At twilight, in the woods, I gather marguerites. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Light; Rest; Sunset; Twilight LIGHT AND SHADE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well to kneel and say Last Line: Of its most sacred brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Good; Life; Love; Soul LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birches are mad with green points Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers LIGHT THAT PASSES THROUGH STONES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source Last Line: Are the same eyes that see %distance sealing a great door Subject(s): Family Life; History LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how the shifting lights and shadows fall Last Line: Whether with shine or shade the hours we fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Life; Light; Shadows LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I; First World War LIGHTS OUT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to the borders of sleep Last Line: That I may lose my way %and myself Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Sleep; World War I LIKE A SENTENCE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How little we know Subject(s): Life' Time LIKE CLEAR MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long-buried women, ye arise for me Last Line: And do but freshen with the fall of years. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; Women LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE NEARLY ALL THE INTELLECTUALS OF THIS GENERATION, WE ARE, by JULIAN BELL Poem Source Last Line: Of the real contradictions of the real world than possible dis- %coveries in some other world Subject(s): Life Change Events LIKE NEW, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones too broke or wise to get parts Subject(s): City & Town Life; Baltimore, Maryland LIKE THE PEONIES (TO 'TEACHER'), by E. P. Poem Text First Line: You are like the peonies Last Line: To give yourself away! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Nature; Peonies LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Small holes that something unweighed by the self-scale lives in Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIKE TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY RAIN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie down, you are horizontal. Last Line: Into oranges and olives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN Poem Text First Line: White lily, lovely flower! Last Line: One a banner of life! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs LILY OF A DAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It was the plant and flower of light Subject(s): Life Change Events LIME HILL, by KATE FARRELL Poem Source First Line: The final handshake you might call it Last Line: Reading your name and age %we must mark it Subject(s): Death; Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Cowboys get up before dawn Last Line: A day they now claim is half gone Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowboy hat's made with great pains Last Line: And a crown that's too big for his brains Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Though little in life is for sure Last Line: And a steady supply of manure Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: For riding way out on the prairie Last Line: That your profile will show - so don't tarry Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMITATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe above me or below Last Line: Life in time's captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Time LIMITS OF EMPIRE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Not for trajan the fabled khyber pass Last Line: Collapsed at the euphrates' mouth and wept Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LINES, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See they come, post haste from thanet Last Line: How does do your lady dear? Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage LINES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are waiting, some can't wait Subject(s): Despair; Contentment; Life LINES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifty years ago to-night Last Line: And time will ever prove us so. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time LINES ADDRESSED TO THE REV. J.T. BECHER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear becher, you tell me to mix with mankind Last Line: Why waste upon folly the days of my youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LINES ON A SKELETON, by ANNA JANE VARDHILL Poem Text First Line: Behold this ruin! - 'twas a skull Last Line: And tread the palace of the sky! Variant Title(s): To A Skeleton Subject(s): Life; Skeletons LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism LINES ON GROWING OLD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not why, in my old age Last Line: So I, one day, to god ascend! Subject(s): Aging; Heaven; Life; Paradise LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has the earth lost its so spacious round Last Line: Together pant in everlasting life! Subject(s): Contentment; Family Life; Relatives LINES TO A DESERTED STUDY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Feel ye not around us teem Last Line: Tread gently, we were flowers. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Time; Youth LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LINES TO AN ONSETTLED YOUNG MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is life at last,' says Last Line: Hit's jes' the thing yer lookin' fer! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LINES UNDER A SUN-DIAL IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT THORNEY, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark well my shade, and seriously attend Last Line: And know, each fleeting hour may be thy last. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The LINES UPON HEARING A POLITICAL CONVENTION, by ALICE FAWLEY Poem Source First Line: Vain, boasting voices, empty as the autumn Subject(s): Farm Life; Political Campaigns LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is! Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers LINOLEUM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the few we hear of Last Line: "and begin where I stand, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Religion; Theology LIONEL AND LUCILLE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the beautiful castleton island a mansion of lordly style Last Line: She had married a count -- some pole with an unpronounceable name. Subject(s): Islands; Life; Love; Mansions LISTEN TO THE SUN GO DOWN, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: Upon a warm september's eve Last Line: And listen to the sun go down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LISTEN! THE WIND IS RISING, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life LISTENING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wept in your mother's arms Last Line: To the pounding of the feet, the pulsing voices. Subject(s): Love; Dancing & Dancers; Life LISTENING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's to hear the children under my window Last Line: To the pounding of the feet, the pulsing voices. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life LISTENING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My whole life I was swimming listening Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LISTENING ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Snap and gleam, buck teeth Last Line: Its dark legs, its fierce and eager grin Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LITANY FOR SPARROW LYING IN THE PATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No special services for you, bird Last Line: Did he turn his head? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITHUANIAN WELL, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My paths out of sand, the heavens Last Line: Sing your mouth pale Subject(s): Farm Life LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one felt in the dark for his hat. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Nature; Relationships LITTLE BROTHER POEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep seeing your car in the streets Last Line: When you need it, and you don't have so much time Subject(s): Family Life LITTLE DAUGHTER, WASHING DISHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Little daughter, washing dishes Last Line: Set no place for despair Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE FLOWER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Little flower, I hold you here Last Line: But a child could do no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life LITTLE FUGUE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At birth you were handed a ticket Subject(s): Life LITTLE GREGORY, by THEODORE BOTREL Poem Text First Line: Gregory,' his dam would chide Last Line: "jesu domine!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Versailles, Frances; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LITTLE MARY FAGAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LITTLE MOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: After the flood had devoured he bei Last Line: Off with a set of jade earrings' Subject(s): Family Life - China LITTLE PATHS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You come upon them unexpectedly Last Line: And follow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE PEOPLE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dreary place would this earth be Last Line: Were there no little people in it Subject(s): Life Change Events LITTLE SADIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I went out last night to make my round Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LITTLE TESTAMENT, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To wake on my fortieth birthday Last Line: Less than I mean, all I can say Subject(s): Books; Family Life; Love; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers LITTLE TOWNS AT DUSK, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: The cottage lamps are gleaming Subject(s): Dusk; Farm Life LITURGICAL SONG. ANTIPHON 16: LOVE OVERFLOWS, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love overflows into all things Last Line: Because she has given to the highest king %the kiss of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion LIVE AND LET LIVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is room in the world for more pleasure Last Line: "than when she says, ""live and let live." Subject(s): Life; Pleasure LIVE BLINDLY; SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live blindly and upon the hour. The lord Last Line: And all his island shivered into flowers. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIVE TO DO GOOD, by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live to do good; but with thought to win Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIVES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First time out Variant Title(s): Lives; For Seamus Heaney Subject(s): Life LIVES OF THE DEEP SEA DIVERS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep missing my stop so Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIVES OF THE SURGE PROTECTORS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she said what she said I Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Robots & Robotics LIVING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We can only live once; and death's terrors Last Line: We shall live in the hearts of our friends Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIVING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If through the years we're not to do Last Line: And gives his life to serve life's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Life LIVING, by EMMA HALLY HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: I count my blessings o'er in years Last Line: Man and wife. Subject(s): Life LIVING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How passionately I will my life away Last Line: To hurl myself into the changeless grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIVING, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LIVING, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: Common feelings Last Line: Is no more than living! Subject(s): Life LIVING, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If this is wednesday, write lazartigues, return library books Last Line: If this is wednesday, it's trash night Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life, Modern LIVING AMONG THE DEAD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First there were those who died Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The LIVING AMONG TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Is different every day Last Line: In the bed by the door Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LIVING WILL, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: He wants to say Last Line: Offer her peaches. Fresh peaches Subject(s): Future Life LIVING WITH A WIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot in purple pants Last Line: Where I would scour my teeth Subject(s): Love Marital; Family Life LIVING: AFTER A DEATH, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Olive! Last Line: He who in god lives, liveth evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Life LIZARD EATER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Never seems so narrow, so steep, so tortuous Last Line: Uncle, this demigod laughing and defying death Subject(s): Family Life - China LIZARDS AND SNAKES, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the summer road that ran by our front porch Last Line: And swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail Subject(s): Lizards; Snakes; Family Life; Serpents; Vipers; Relatives LLAMAS IN THE LANDSCAPE, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: And what are these Last Line: John wayne in drag Subject(s): Ranch Life LOADING A BOAR, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were loading a boar, a goddamn mean big sonofabitch Last Line: Writing and found out john he was right. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers LOB, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At hawthorn-time in wiltshire travelling Last Line: Young jack perhaps, and now a wiltshireman %as he has oft been since his days began Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Country Life LOCAL BOY MISSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was not ready for the gift of sleep Last Line: And little winds whisper your requiem Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOCAL VASE, by JEFF HARDIN Poem Source First Line: Do you also often find a way to keep your life Last Line: Someon'es once-devotion on display completes a prayer still there Subject(s): Education; Life LOCATING THE INVISIBLE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to go on Last Line: This constant infusion of 'the other'? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LODGER, by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN First Line: Within their rented lives Last Line: The front door slamming %onto midmorning rain Subject(s): Life LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost? Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let shepherds carol of the pearly mead Last Line: The human soul not yet regenerate. Subject(s): Cities; London; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Urban Life LONDON BRIDGE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud and lowly, beggar and lord Last Line: Until the river no more shall run. Subject(s): Life; London; Mankind; Human Race LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a singer in the street Last Line: That throngs the shameless song this night! Subject(s): Cities; London; Singing & Singers; Urban Life LONE STAR WOMAN, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Twas half moon out on the longest day Last Line: A lone star woman whispered love %took it away before the dawn Subject(s): Ranch Life LONE-LAND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around us lies a world invisible Last Line: And hopes encompassed by the tide of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life LONELINESS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father made me keep Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives LONELY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Tis always thus within a crowd Last Line: As time has passed away Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Last Line: I used his mattress %for the rest of the tour. %it still bothers me, sometimes: %I was sleeping %on Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel "chappie" (1920-78 LONELY FARMER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor hill farmer astray in the grass Last Line: His ear betrayed by the heart's need Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life LONELY MEN, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: Their little dark houses still dotted Last Line: They broke off tumbleweeds %and were gone Subject(s): Ranch Life LONELY ONE I BE, by RONALD JUMBO Poem Source Last Line: I am waiting for a new beginning each day. %I am the lonely one Subject(s): Farm Life LONELY, EMPTY, PRAIRIE SKY, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: In the midst of everywhere I know this place Last Line: I am at home beneath the lonely, empty, prairie sky Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LONESOME DOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day while in a lonesome grove Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LONESOME PEAK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I bed down by a man Last Line: Courses through his veins Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LONG AFTERNOON AT THE EDGE OF LITTLE SISTER POND, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for life, / I'm humbled Subject(s): Life; Love LONG AFTERNOON AT THE EDGE OF LITTLE SISTER POND, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for life, %I'm humbled Last Line: I can't wait to be the hummingbird, %can you? Subject(s): Life; Love LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is to be enough for each of us that we are togetherwe never separate again Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Conduct Of Life LONG LIFETIME', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Infinitely small - %infinitely large Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Time LONG LOOKED FOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye hardly sees Last Line: And even I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Peace; Sleep LONG-GONE SUN: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SOMBER HOURS, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: What guardian angel was watching over them %what demon? Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents LONG-TOU BALLAD, by ZHANG JI Poem Source First Line: The road to long-tou is cut off Last Line: To once again take liang-zhou %into the house of han? Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War LONG-XI; A BALLAD, by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: Every ten miles a horse is set galloping Last Line: Snow now blows in the barrier mountains - %beacon fires are cut off, no smoke Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs LONGING, by D. C. REID Poem Source First Line: Is there only one? Last Line: And, of course, the plaguing question: %is there only one? Subject(s): Life LOOK TO THE FUTURE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you born into violence Subject(s): War; Future; Conduct Of Life LOOK TO THIS DAY, by KALIDASA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Such is the salutation of the dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events LOOKIN' FOR A PLACE TO BED DOWN, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Louis and louise taylor had been makin' all the bars Last Line: Sometimes it's hard to find a good place to bed down Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ranch Life LOOKING AROUND II, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale sky and one star pale star Last Line: Said it and meant lord that's it and please turn off the light %and he did Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Life LOOKING BACK, by TERESA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: The secret place is gone Last Line: Only one of us is gone Subject(s): Ranch Life LOOKING DOWN INSTEAD OF UP, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Oh no %good bull nice bull Last Line: Thank you Subject(s): Country Life LOOKING FOR SIGNS, by DANA NAONE HALL Poem Source First Line: Aunty alice said it first Last Line: I saw a cloud shaped like a pyramid %and a car driving out of the sun Subject(s): Family Life LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sounds of traffic Last Line: It shines so Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary LOOKING UP INSTEAD OF DOWN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Hawk %buzzard Last Line: Instead of %up Subject(s): Country Life LOOT, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg Last Line: Loot! Loot! Loot! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics LORD DANIEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First come down was dressed in red Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LORD NEVIL'S ADVICE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend,' quoth lord nevil, 'thou art young' Last Line: "and count thyself a happy man." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Conduct Of Life; Marriage LORD THE CREATOR, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath thy all-directing rod Subject(s): Country Life LORD THOMAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord thomas he was a gay young man Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life LOSING A BREAST: PRAYER BEFORE SURGERY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In another time and place Last Line: How can you know the long, the beautiful hunger? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LOSS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life may moult many feathers, yet delight Last Line: Till the thinned feathers end our eager flight. Subject(s): Death; Life; Loss; Dead, The LOSS AND GAIN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life grows better every day Last Line: As we journey in a dream. Subject(s): Life LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean LOSS OF CONTROL, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me it was an adventure Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives LOSSES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed had not served, strength had not flowed amain Last Line: It may be, to be lost, is not unblest! Subject(s): Life; Loss; Love; Past LOST, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many paths in the woods have chosen Last Line: As now I understand Subject(s): Life LOST, by MABEL STAFFORD Poem Text First Line: You never knew when I stopped loving you Last Line: With you, you never guessing you have lost. Subject(s): Life LOST CAUSES: 1. BETTING THE RANCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: He could have sold his pregnant cows last fall Last Line: Before a blizzard and a margin call Variant Title(s): Betting The Ranc Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LOST CHILD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With the moon rising like a hot exclamation Last Line: Or something, looking back just once %as she turns to go. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love LOST EDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Only the snake can take me there again Last Line: And innocence and the small snake were gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOST LINES FOR A MATERIALIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me no grave, who loved the summer sky Last Line: You would believe, but I must understand.'' Subject(s): Life Change Events LOST LIVES, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I feel as if I've lost my life,' a bald man said Last Line: And-asphalt road that could take me anywhere Subject(s): Death; Life LOST THREADS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie the lost threads of a tangled life Last Line: Else were I eloquent of thee and these. Subject(s): Life LOUISBERG SQUARE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet little space, set in Last Line: A quiet dream. Subject(s): Louisburg Square, Boston; Quiet Life LOUSE HUNTING, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOUVAIN, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bleeding and torn, ravished with sword and flame Last Line: Shrived by the sacred sorrow of louvain. Subject(s): Betrayal; Faith; France; Future Life; God; Martyrs; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who veileth love should first have vanquished fate Last Line: Though watched of the divine hesperides. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Male-female Relations LOVE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why live? I never really thought Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Falure; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND FAME, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the may when I was born Last Line: In death may gain the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Fame; Life; Love; Reputation LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who tells you which is the whiter wash Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE AND LIFE, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love and death go ever hand in hand Last Line: For love and life go ever hand in hand. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LOVE AND WAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Young crow warriors rode into war Last Line: We didn't raise you right Subject(s): Children; Native Americans; Ranch Life LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever brawls disturb the street Last Line: Fall out and chide and fight. Subject(s): Family Life; Mnemonics; Relatives LOVE COMES QUIETLY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Alone all the way Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Last of the shadows may close my eyes Last Line: But being ash will feel %dust be dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of LOVE FLINGS US FORWARD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Yes, of course Last Line: This riot of love %across the weathering stone Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Last Line: Whatever it is, let it be without %affectation %yes, yes, yes, yes Subject(s): Americans; Life, Modern; United States LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION B), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: All seem to know what is for heaven alone. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Love - Nature Of LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY Poem Source First Line: Think of family, ulster irish Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland LOVE LETTERS, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Wow! Was written in the dust %on the bedside table. Last Line: I would give a year of my life %for that... % wow! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LOVE LYRICS OF A COWBOY, by ROBERT V. CARR Poem Text First Line: It hain't no use fer me to say Last Line: "dog-gone a clock!"" is what I say." Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LOVE MADE VISIBLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Love shows itself in homely ways Last Line: Children tucked in their beds at night Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOVE OF LIFE, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Love you not the tall trees spreading wide their branches Last Line: You have not learnt to live then; how can you dare to die? Subject(s): Life LOVE PLATONIC, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Platonic love 'twixt you and me Last Line: Tis better then not love to know Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio LOVE POEM, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This piece of paper %I was saving is drunk Last Line: Having said %their ordinary goodbyes Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE POEM, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is a shyness that we have Last Line: For love is quiet, and love is kind Subject(s): Life Change Events LOVE POEM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attempted suicide was your tour de force Subject(s): Suicide; Conduct Of Life LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot Last Line: Dauphin into king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 56, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flesh you have loved Last Line: In uji river, the current and the mist %are taking me Subject(s): Life LOVE RITES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I cut my finger %slicing cucumbers Last Line: She's wooed by others, %would you be my valentine Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE SONG OF RASHEED THE MAD CAP, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Praise to thee great allah, %for carving my beloved Last Line: To the rose tree the rose tree Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE THE TEACHER AND INSPIRER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dragged my life along with sullen sighs Last Line: Tis you that do it, you that work in me. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Love; Teaching & Teachers LOVE THE WORLD, by KARY WAYSON Poem Source First Line: If you loved the world you'd quit smoking Last Line: An orchard, a ladder, a basket with handles, and that %particular pear Subject(s): Life; Love LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators LOVE WILL NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY MASTERY, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To which the law of love will answer 'yes' Subject(s): Life Change Events LOVE'S BROODING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thy still loving helpful heart Last Line: The perfect end of god and man. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love LOVE'S CHARMING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of fifteen, in childlike beauty dight Last Line: These are the spells that charmed my wits away. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Laughter; Life; Love; Voices LOVE'S CONSCIENCE IN PRAYER, by GERTRUDE FRENCH Poem Text First Line: Horizon melts to darkness cold Last Line: To finish endless miles. Subject(s): Life; Love; Prayer LOVE'S DAY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tide of dawn silently Last Line: Sing bride! Sing blossom! Sing bird! Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Life; Love; Passion LOVE'S GARLAND, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Love, wove me a garland of roses so sweet Last Line: Will I trust him, for even a day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE IDEAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: At noon when every dame had sought her bed Last Line: Boom'd for one dead, down from the spired chapelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LOVE'S QUICKENING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere love from barren chaos drew the skies Last Line: I find the ordered pathway of my soul. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Truth; Paradise LOVE'S RECORDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, boy, and where the grass is thickest pied Last Line: How for love's sake I suffer and make moan. Subject(s): April; Life; Love LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I sat upon the shore Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life. Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LOVE, TO BE LOVE, MUST WALK THY WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But all is good? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Conduct Of Life; Religion LOVE, YOUTH, SONG, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: It was a song of lustihood Last Line: When love and youth and song were one! Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LOVE-JOY, LOVE-SORROW, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand lilies, a thousand pinks Last Line: Like clouds in the wind it vanisheth. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight LOVER'S TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat today beneath the pine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Life; Love; Soul LOVERS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Meeting once again by rendezvous %in this motel Last Line: Always bones that never meet %the heir to our darkness Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: If the gods are ourselves, extended Last Line: From afar, this landscape glistened, %like crystal turning to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life LOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you brought him home? I did, ay ronald, it rested with me Last Line: Laura! But give me my troth kiss again.' 'and give me my ring.' Subject(s): Hope; Kisses; Lakes; Life; Love; Optimism; Pools; Ponds LOVING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come in, come in, loving henry,' she said Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LOVING NANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've always been a poor girl, my fortune ... Bad Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LOVING VIRGINS COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One morning when bright sol Subject(s): Country Life LUCK, by DARE STARK Poem Text First Line: Let there live aye a lad's laugh in the throat of you Last Line: Let death be a step betwix you and the god of you! Subject(s): Death; Life; Luck; Dead, The LUCK OF THE DRAW, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: There were a thousand Last Line: In the lead %invincible Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LUIZA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I was sitting on the potty, although I Last Line: Happy, tousled by the mountain wind ed their heads Subject(s): Family Life LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs LULLABY: FOR A BLACK MOTHER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little dark baby Last Line: For your sleep-song lullaby Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Lullaby (for A Black Mother Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life LUNCH WITH THE ASTRONAUT'S MOTHER, by CAROL HENRIE Poem Source First Line: We were invited. It was friendship drive Last Line: That stippled the calm water Subject(s): Astronauts; Family Life; Mothers LUNDU, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight, if I sleep on this bank Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Sugar; Agriculture; Farmers LUSTING FOR LONI BALZER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Holding %the questions %in the quiz I made up Last Line: To move your thighs at will %with all the answers Subject(s): Family Life - India LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LYING MY HEAD OFF, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard Subject(s): Lies; Truth; Conduct Of Life; Relationships LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The LYNN, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Too american to remember the root Last Line: Into my one and only vowel Subject(s): Children; Life; Rivers LYRIC AND EPIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lyric the sunset gleamed Last Line: An elemental clash and cry. Subject(s): Life; Love; Wind; Memorial Day LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 42, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many visions of times long vanish'd Last Line: Stand fix'd, the image of woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Silence; Nightmares LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 56, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My songs with poison are tainted Last Line: And thee too, my dearest love, thee. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MAC, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Good egg' - her favorite words Subject(s): Family Life MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: With farmers and their brides sowing %and reaping. When they died %they became two spirits of the wo Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion MAD FARMER SHUTS HIMSELF INSIDE SILO TO SING AWAY STORM, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Because the silo is round %each note is round Last Line: And the harvest behold! Is in Subject(s): Farm Life MAD FARMER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My father he left me three acres of land Last Line: And reaped it with my little penknife, %sing holly, go whistle, and ivy! Subject(s): Farm Life MADAME CAILLIER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Driving into light %you close your eyes Last Line: She is with you %white madonna of the clouds Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MADAME DE STAEL, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: There was no beauty on thy brow Last Line: Must mourn their own high doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Prophecy & Prophets; Women MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life MADRIGAL: 1, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life, which seems so fair Last Line: Because it erst was nought, it turns to nought. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The Bubble;life A Bubble;this Life Subject(s): Life MADRIGAL: ANOTHER LIFE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: I like very much the notion that I will Last Line: Which will take the place of nouns Subject(s): Future Life; Incarnation; Poetry And Poets MAGIC, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: A feeble glow springs from the tallow Last Line: "finds wings!" Subject(s): Life; Magic; Prayer MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think a cleaner light moves behind that farther Last Line: Beyond, a slave, where desire balloons memory Subject(s): Life; Magic MAGIC: ONE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: Magic runs in the family Last Line: A fireman, a magician, a telegrapher, %others alcoholics or priests Subject(s): Family Life; Magic MAGIC: TWO, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I can turn my life Last Line: No slgiht of hand too difficult Subject(s): Life; Magic MAGICIAN AS A BOY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Good with his hands and fond Last Line: Would want him now tender Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAGICIAN EXPLAINS HOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Think of corsages saved Last Line: Remember her lovely neck %and where you put her Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAHARAJA OF PATIALA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palace opened sesame Last Line: Of khaki on my tongue: I said %my children Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage - Forced; Tradition MAID MARIAN, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lady did, it is true, once signalise ... Subject(s): Country Life MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii MAILIED, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wie herrlich leuchtet Subject(s): Country Life MAIZE IN NORWAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By an inn of wildest norway Last Line: As that cluster of waving corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Americans; Corn; Farm Life; Norway; Agriculture; Farmers MAJESTY IN MISERY; OR, AN IMPLORATION TO THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES I Poem Text First Line: Great monarch of the world, from whose power springs Last Line: Yet, though we perish, bless this church and state. Subject(s): Adversity; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MAJOR SURGERY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: My dreams rise, a twist of smoke Last Line: Cars buzz in the walls Subject(s): Life Change Events; Self-reliance; Surgery MAKE WAY FOR DANIEL BOONE, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Is there anyone left unaware Last Line: Some place to sulk as lewis and clark %bypass my heart on their way west Subject(s): Explorers; Ranch Life MAKE YOURSELF INVISIBLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drew islands with palm trees Subject(s): Seashore; Family Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Relatives MAKING ALLOWANCES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Bill eats our food and shares our roof Last Line: But with a common currency! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING APPLE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cinnamon and cider and crisp northern spies Last Line: But winter isn't here till we've made the apple butter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My sisters watch me as I shape the loaf and Last Line: I feel my sisters watching, sharing, knowing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING DO, by JODY AZZOUNI Poem Source First Line: I preach each day in the subways Last Line: That are christian for a moment Subject(s): Life MAKING FODDER, by LINDA BROCKMAN Poem Source First Line: Near the house at the top of the hill I stopped Last Line: To mark the place I'm going this time, if I'm right Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Travel MAKING SOAP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last thursday, down by slipshod hill Last Line: To make and own a tub of soap. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Mountain Life - Vermont; Soup; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MALE IMAGE, by TED SOLOTAROFF Poem Source First Line: I watch for my uncles to come in from the fields Last Line: It's what men say when they are strong and happy %because they have something hard to do Subject(s): Farm Life MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MAMA LESSONS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: I first helped pull a calf...With my mother,' mama said Last Line: Like my mama treat them gently, and when it's time...To worklike hell Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses MAN, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His heart beat joyously in spring Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Hope; Optimism MAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race MAN AND MACHINE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Besides drinking and telling lies Last Line: And by morning the fields were new Subject(s): Family Life MAN IS SO AFRAID, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is so afraid, he look down at cock, long ago many Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN LIVING ON THE ROCK, by HERSHMAN R. JOHN Poem Source First Line: Alone. Non-existent. Ephemeral Last Line: Here I am, I am next to you: %a petroglyph on a rock Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature MAN ON A FIRE ESCAPE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't remember what propelled him Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MAN ON THE RAFT, by JONATHAN GALASSI Poem Source First Line: The man on the raft Last Line: Nothing left for him to do %but try again tomorrow Subject(s): Day; Evening; Life; Summer; Sun MAN SHOEING A HORSE AND HIS LITTLE GIRL, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: He whirled those blue eyes on me Last Line: I could pull on and wear %spoke Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MAN WHO BUYS HIDES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Before I had a face Last Line: Over, counter to the earth Subject(s): Farm Life MAN WITH AN AXE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He hefts the axe and the axe hangs true Last Line: And built a house with his axe and his dreams Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The grasses and wild asters Last Line: Thrown swiftly on a screen Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets; T'ao Ch'ien (365-427) MAN'S LIFE IS BUT A WORKING DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And all things lovely on the morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN'S MISSION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human lives are silent teaching Last Line: So to love, and work, and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad." Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life MANCHOULI, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find it normal, passing these great frontiers Last Line: So too the extract false comfort from that word Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Siberia MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea Last Line: Crost the bay! Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire MANSION, by RANA M. JALEEL Poem Source First Line: The horse had died and your grandfather, too. One body Last Line: Bore forever the walls. This house will outlive you Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life MAP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hill, a farm, / a forest, and a valley. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAP-MAKER'S DAUGHTER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The geography of love is terra infirma Last Line: Territories we name %after ourselves Subject(s): Family Life; History MAPLE DAYS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON (20TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Though nights be cold, yet soon on sunny Last Line: Old mother maple vivid patchwork lays. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Last Line: The sweetness preserved, of a dead man %in his own kitchen, %giving us %from his lost grave the gift Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves MAPLES IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Maples in winter have a listening look Last Line: With miracle of leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think that march is just a little boy Last Line: He goes to sleep upon the lap of spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARDI GRAS; GRANDMOTHERS PORTRAIT IN RED AND BLACK CRAYON, by JAMES NOLAN Poem Source First Line: As I see them now and then Subject(s): Family Life MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii Casualties; Women; Love Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MARGARITE IN AMERICA, SELS., by THOMAS LODGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life MARIA BENITEZ, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A bucking horse-twisting gypsy Last Line: Ole maria ole %viva maria ole Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life MARKET BOUND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Mom reading %dad driving Last Line: Against the wind %market bound Subject(s): Country Life MARKING TIME, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: You've gone away Last Line: Has slowed 'till your return %hurry! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MAROZIE, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the shady terrace where her beauty wells Last Line: For a friendly look from her eyes of sprinkled gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muslims; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Moslems MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Variant Title(s): Advice Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE: A WORD TO HUSBANDS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep your marriage brimming Last Line: Whenever you're right, shut up Variant Title(s): Advic Subject(s): Life Change Events; Marriage MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a centurys Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARTHA, by DANA LITTLEPAGE SMITH Poem Source First Line: They think I give a fig Last Line: I'd rather sweat & eat pig's feet Subject(s): Family Life; Religion MARTINIQUE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: C'est un jour %de malheur Last Line: Et une langue %etrangere Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MARVELOUS FATHER, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Slobodan milosovic is a marvelous father Last Line: We know they are such marvelous men Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents; Politics; Terror MARY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: With love that counted not the cost Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: When that my son was born in a little town Last Line: To keep a christian peace. Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict MARY AND MARTHA, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martha with joy received her blessed lord Last Line: Sure, both loved well; but mary was the debtor, %and therefore should, in reason, love the better Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women MARY GOLDEN TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a little ship and she sailed ... Sea Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life MARY MAGDALENE, by KASSIA Poem Source First Line: Lord, this woman who fell into many sins Last Line: Do not overlook me, your slave, %in your measureless mercy Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion MARY MURRAY OF MURRAY HILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of belmont looked out to the east Last Line: "kind hostess, thy bounty hath cost us too dear!" Subject(s): Army Life; Murray Hill, New York; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Drills & Minor Tactics MARY WARREN'S SAMPLER, by NICOLE COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Reversible stitches: my mother and I leaned over a single piece of english line Last Line: To me - as witness my hand mary warren Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sewing MASKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain friend of mine, whose daily praise Last Line: Whose common title with the world was saint. Subject(s): Hate; Life; Masks; Sin; Soul MASQUERADE, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Masked dancers in the dance of life Last Line: Until the dance is ended. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life MASTER AND MAN, by ROBERT BELL Poem Source First Line: No, bob; I will not go a wals Subject(s): Country Life MASTER HUGUES OF SAXE-GOTHA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Last Line: Do I carry the moon in my pocket? Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Life MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plastic safety card Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MASTER OF THE SITUATION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Your bike's been taken Last Line: The mountainous weapon of its patience Subject(s): Accidents; Bicycles; Life; Mountains MASTER TEACHER HOLDS HIS CLASS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Think long, let the root of it work Last Line: Has wound a path to the bone, you can walk %beside me and think a little longer. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MASTERS, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: The photgraphs were yellow where death is a bidden slow form splitting cells... Last Line: As I helped you from the bed, a faint, colorless laugh Subject(s): Life; Photography And Photographers MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow Last Line: And where the stars are led. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight MATINAL SURVEY OF THE CITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O justly made divine, unclose thy hands, sweet dawn, those fingers Last Line: Sweet to me, against white walls the sound of all these shutters blue! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Cities; Spring; Urban Life MATISSE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To begin with a light as vivid and warm Last Line: Through the trees like colorful wild beasts Subject(s): Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Family Life MATRIMONIAL DUET, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we first were man and wife Last Line: Let us say no more about it, mr. (mrs.) john prevot. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MATRIMONY, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: The rancher's son had lost his heart Last Line: When she's tired...Or she's rested Subject(s): Cowboys; Marriage; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) MATTER AND SPIRIT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the world chaos Last Line: Win it from god. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The MATTHEW 16: 2-3. PROPHECY, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: He answered and said unto them, when it is Last Line: Not discern the sign of the times Subject(s): Country Life MATTJEW 8: 3-8. A SOWER, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And he spake many things unto them in Last Line: Some an hundred fold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold Subject(s): Country Life MAURINE: PART 4, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maurine, maurine! 'tis ten o'clock! Arise Last Line: Ere I could speak, or change my attitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Picnics; Women; Barbecues MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The MAY I SLEEP IN YOUR BARN TONIGHT, MISTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, the rapture Last Line: God. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World MAY MORNING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: One flashed upon her dreaming Last Line: His promise to recall. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Love; May (month); Paradise MAY-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is may! Last Line: Intimate, ever-renewed, than the circle of shallower changes. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; May (month); Memory; Destiny MAYA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Again and again we make our world Last Line: In the descending light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MBA, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I remember the Last Line: And that's the god's truth! Subject(s): Life MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness ME DOWN HERE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Crows %conferring Last Line: Down here %envying crows Subject(s): Country Life MEANING TO LIFE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: I feel lonely and deserted by god and man Last Line: And I discover that there is still some meaning to life Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Life MEANINGFUL THINGS, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Times change, and we forget Last Line: He tells himself. You shouldn't even try Subject(s): Life MEANWHILE, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make Last Line: It's simple: it isn't over, it's just begun. It's green. It's still green Subject(s): Life; Streets MEAT, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much meat moves Subject(s): City & Town Life MECHANIZATION, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The photographic plate makes clear Last Line: And it is they that feel. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Photography & Photographers MEDIATION IN MIDWINTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Each day I become less %of a presence Last Line: Playing silent scales at dusk Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MEDICINE WOMAN'S DAUGHTER: CHARM TO KEEP YOU PART OF WHOLE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: May the white bark be nine times your mother Last Line: Rose blooming in snowy circles Subject(s): Family Life; History MEDITATING ON STAR LIGHT WHILE TRAVELING HIGHWAY 2, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: We are vistitors into Subject(s): Family Life; History MEDITATION, by FRANCES MARCH DAVY Poem Text First Line: My life is a web of grey Last Line: In granite for my tomb. Subject(s): Life MEDITATION, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the ambassadors have gone, refusing Last Line: Anything really happens, be safely dead Subject(s): Life MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: THURSDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead as men are, in trespasses and sins Last Line: The gate of life, and paradise regain'd. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: WEDNESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justice demandeth satisfaction' - yes Last Line: Itself restor'd,—not any thing in lieu. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Justice; Religion; Theology MEET ME AT THE ELEPHANT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Buffered by his cap and coat Last Line: On the way to natural history Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MEET THE FAMILY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John one takes his place at the table Last Line: To each loathed foetus, stare from the wall, %dead not absent. The night falls Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Family Life MEETING (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said goodbye in hope Last Line: But it is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism MEETING ON A GRAVEL BAR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: It just us snake %nobody here Last Line: It just us snake %let do it Subject(s): Country Life MEETING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we've loved them, it's what we want, and sometimes Last Line: The orderly gardens and homes of the living Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Peace; Dead, The; Relatives MEETING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we've loved them, it's what we want, and sometimes Last Line: On suburb streets, I was quietly passing %the orderly gardens and homes of the living Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Peace MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMO TO THEOGNIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: No man is happy Last Line: And dogs die young Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MEMO: FOR A BEDSIDE READING TABLE, SCRIBBLED AT 2. A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let others read to shudder and weep Last Line: Why did I start on a book like that? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MEMOIR OF A QUEEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, before she was a queen, boots not Last Line: Whose reign was greater or more blest than hers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MEMORIAL DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Do not sing blues here in this place Last Line: Flowers and tears should never last Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A life more bright than the sun's face, owed Last Line: Alive above us who strive below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORIES OF THREE OR FOUR, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: I remember being nestled in that old ranch Last Line: A rhythm and a sound like a heartbeat in a womb Subject(s): Ranch Life MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Last Line: And all my days are dying Subject(s): Farm Life MEMORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spinning up dust and Subject(s): Memory; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MEMORY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood's home I see again Last Line: And feel I'm part of thee! Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Home; Memory; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I always, always, always knew Last Line: Nought but the dream of long ago Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MEN WHO DENIED THE GODDESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How she arrived Last Line: As they turned %against the shining air Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MENAPHON: DORON'S ECLOGUE, JOINED WITH CARMELA'S, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, carmela; here are cobs for kings Last Line: Come, kiss and part, for fear my mother comes. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are my sheep without their wonted food? Last Line: Whereto this solace tends! Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the spring the cattle moo Last Line: Of that old fence. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MERCENARIES, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The wind has died down in the vineyards on the hills. A moth flaps Last Line: The face in the puddle when at times it reflects our own image Subject(s): God; Life MERLIN'S APPLE TREES, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair the gift to merlin given Subject(s): Country Life MEROPE'S PRAYER TO ISIS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: My call is to isis, %she of the shining spirit Last Line: Unwind the dance %in its slow spiral Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MESMERIST, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Enough to watch one gloved hand, white Last Line: Which veins are roads and how far back? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips MESSAGE IN THE WIND, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: As you set and look from the ridge Last Line: He sent to yer hoss on the wind Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower Last Line: Lilies to roses. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the haze of some wan moonlight makes Last Line: The spirit of the pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Moon; Nature; Nightmares METHOD, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I use a little brush Last Line: At last, this plumage Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives METRICAL HOMILY: CHRIST'S TEACHING OF NICODEMUS, by ORM Poem Text First Line: In that the lord said thus Last Line: To win the grace of christ. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Ormin; Orm (circa 1170) Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry MICHAEL FLYNN AND THE BABY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luk at 'ere, ould baby, - who Last Line: Don't yez know yer feyther -- boy? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives MICHELANGELO, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: My father climbed ladders Last Line: All he knew was a towel- %he could mend the skies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MID-LIFE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost everyone at art camp wears %a full head of dark hair. Mornings Last Line: In this glade of light and leaves that I might %mistake myself for a bear, a deer Subject(s): Aging; Life MID-SUMMER MORNING RUN, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The blue spruce all lean Last Line: Holding their tongues Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MIDDLE MANAGER, by ANTHONY OAKSON Poem Source First Line: When he trudges in the front door Last Line: Before he takes off his winter coat Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters MIDDLEBROOK, by EDWARD C. JONES Poem Text First Line: The lowly huts of middlebrook Last Line: Nor by their sons be lost. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers MIDNIGHT IN THE PANTRY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can boast your round of pleasures, praise Last Line: Just the joy of pantry-prowling in the middle of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MIDPOINT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of nothing bur me, me Last Line: Which brought me this far; henceforth, if I can, %I must impersonate a reasonable man Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Self MIDSUMMER, by CLAIRE COLLETT Poem Source First Line: Dad would turn up the stereo Last Line: Thick in the gaining dark Subject(s): Family Life; Jazz; Music And Musicians MIGNON, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, mignon, child of mystery? Last Line: Thy spirit's wings unfolded in the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Life; Past MIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year marie drives back and forth Last Line: Like the holy ghost that it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Adoption; Dead, The MIGRATIONS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: You see everything, everything: the breath of flies, a teapot Last Line: Now you know the bell tolls for you and for us Subject(s): Earth; Life MILITARISM, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like molten lava down the mountain steep Last Line: With nineveh, with tyre and babylon. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Militarism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics MILKIN', by P. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was a sunburned farmer who was leaning on a plough Last Line: "'well, I told 'im there'd be milkin',' he remarked, and seized his plough" Alternate Author Name(s): P. Subject(s): Farm Life;labor & Laborers; Agriculture;farmers MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter MILKMAID, by THOMAS NABBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a dainty life the milkmaid leads Subject(s): Country Life MILKWEED PODS IN NOVEMBER, by JEFF MANN Poem Source First Line: Across those shiver-seas %of pasture, we are boats Last Line: What peace to be so empty Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Last Line: At the turn of the century Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year MILLER'S BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a little miller boy, lived by the mill Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life MILWAUKEE AVENUE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asphering sky, like a drop curtain hangs Subject(s): Chicago; City & Town Life MIND, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MINDING THE DARKNESS: A POEM FOR THE YEAR 2000, SELS., by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: My mother's easel Last Line: By day the orchards of the stars Subject(s): Art And Artists; Family Life MINIATURE, by ANGEL VARGA Poem Source First Line: My younger brother snores, at the edge Last Line: Protecting no one, not even herself Subject(s): Family Life; Size And Shape MINISTERING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels of light, spread your bright wings Last Line: O take me home! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Hearts; Life MIRACLE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Dull, leaden clouds move heavily across the sky Last Line: The world lies immaculate, radiant, clean. Subject(s): Life MIRAGE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city islanded in light Last Line: Clear to the eyes, lost to the feet of men. Subject(s): Cities; Mirages; Urban Life MIRANDA MORGAN, by QUEENE B. LISTER Poem Text First Line: She listened to the click Last Line: Who whistled like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, E. P., Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS: PROLOGUE, by MARGUERITE PORETE Poem Source First Line: Theologians and other clerks Last Line: And then you'll understand this book, %which by love makes the soul live Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion MISCHIEF NIGHT, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: After dinners in kitchens, the black fire follows us Last Line: Bright deaths discovered, pumpkins smashed in the streets Subject(s): Autumn; Family Life; Seasons MISDIRECTION, by ELEANOR SLATER Poem Text First Line: I shape the vessel of my life Last Line: Out of a copper urn. Subject(s): Life MISERABLE NIGHT, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR Poem Text First Line: It is raining tonight Last Line: God, how the patients cough! Subject(s): Hospitals; Rain; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life MISERY AND FRUSTRATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say one part of wisdom Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Conduct Of Life; Wine MISERY IS THE YEAST -, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ferment Last Line: I lack the proper background Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MISFIT, by GEORGIA KREIGER Poem Source First Line: The feeling there's a missed train somewhere in your life Last Line: Into a hut under a scrub tree beside the highway. %it's that feeling Subject(s): Life MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by ZOE H. FELDWISCH Poem Text First Line: Poor city man! I pity you Last Line: Your unseeing eyes need my sympathy! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Sympathy; Urban Life; Empathy MISS EDNA ERLE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: She will not eat her Last Line: Is talking about how fast %she can travel backwards Subject(s): Family Life MISSED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He fumed from the kitchen Last Line: Hers are black frost Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fights; Knives MISSING MAMA, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: Last year when mama died Last Line: I think about the good things now Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life MISSISSIPPI MYSTERIES, CONTINUED, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Papa wasn't no fool, but neither was that farm Last Line: That hellacious month of jubilant weather nights Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Farm Life MISTER COBB'S SOLUTION, by NEAL KIRCHNER Poem Source First Line: The lush green foliage he hacks back Last Line: He sees me now, at the driveway's mouth, %and he guns that fartbag truck! Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Farm Life; Food And Eating; Tea MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MOCKINGBIRD PIE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Measure the slick of their voices Last Line: And think they're you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MODEL COMMUNITY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The superintendent was showing me through the model community Last Line: And, bending over, he snipped the telephone cord Subject(s): Contrariness; Inconsistency; Life; Towns MODERATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In things a moderation keepe Last Line: Kings ought to sheare, not skin their sheepe. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Moderation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MODERN SONNET, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: You smiled and I was interested Subject(s): Farm Life MODUS VIVENDI, by J. MACEKURA Poem Source First Line: Is your ofice out to get you? Last Line: That stalks the unwary %like a rapist %in the night Subject(s): Corporate Life MOLL, by PAUL LAKE Poem Source First Line: Despite your author's quaint intention Last Line: Purchase herslef a fresh estate Subject(s): Life; Women MOLLY MOOR, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Tully, the queen of beauty's boast Last Line: When she is up to ceres gone. Subject(s): African Americans; Courts & Courtiers; Negroes; American Blacks; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MOM IS WOW!, by JULIA FIELDS Poem Source First Line: Mothers and finders and keepers Last Line: They are teachers of duties and rights. %mom is wow! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life MOMENT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: And not once, %but many times over Last Line: Each point admitting an untrammeled flood Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MOMENT OF JOY, by CARROLL BLAIR Poem Source First Line: An old man sits in the shade Last Line: Moment) both sun and son %will not find him Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Time MOMENTS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are moments in our life Last Line: When such a moment came to me! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise; Reason; Sea; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean MOMENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crow caws, / on the pine tops Last Line: Eternity seems to end. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Future Life; Pine Trees; Trees; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MOMMA SAID, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slice I ate I want it back Subject(s): Cakes; Conduct Of Life MON CHERE AIME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My song now is hushed, and I can sing no longer Last Line: We're parted forever - mon chere aime Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: During the usual dinner table argument Last Line: Loud hard talk during supper, %nothing to dislodge those fragile wings Subject(s): Butterflies; Dinners And Dining; Family Life; Insects MONDAY MORNING REVEILLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birdless, the blood red dawn the engines roar Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics MONGREL HEART, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dog bounds to the window, baying Subject(s): Family Life; Dogs; Relatives MONKEY IN THE HIGH 90S, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Faced with a barrage of excited chattering Last Line: Just bring your hunger and contemplate Subject(s): Ranch Life MONMOUTH, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, in silks and laces Last Line: Wander awhile with me. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could remember that first day Last Line: First touch of hand in hand -- did one but know! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The First Meeting;the First Day Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONOTROPA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loves serene, uncarnate graces! Last Line: Cease thyself, vain rhythmic sound! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Soul; Nightmares MONTANA, by SYLVIA M. HAIGHT Poem Source First Line: Land of the friendly handclasp Subject(s): Farm Life MONTANUS' SONNET: 1, FR. ROSALIND [ROSALYNDE], by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebe sat %sweet she sat Last Line: Phoebe yield, or I die: %shall true hearts be fancies fuel? Subject(s): Country Life MONTANUS' SONNET: 2, FR. ROSALIND [ROSALYNDE], by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A turtle sat upon a leafless tree Subject(s): Country Life MONTEGO BOY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: His limbs were lean as mangrove roots Last Line: Between the reefs and land Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MONTHS WERE NAMED FOR, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Time to plant corn Last Line: And big birds in the ripe corn %sang Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life; Soil; Wheat MOOD INDIGO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life; Longing; Agriculture; Farmers MOOD INDIGO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life; Longing MOOFER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I remember skin the color of tea %wrapped his large-boned body. He wore Last Line: Such self-satisfied %little universes, %such lost children, %such americans Subject(s): Farm Life; Immigrants; Old Age; Prairies MOON AT THE FRONTIER PASS, by BAO JUNHUI Poem Source First Line: High, sky-high: fall's moon glitters bright Last Line: No more to hear the clangorous camp-gongs' clash Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life MOON FAREWELL, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Being round %was never my idea %of beauty Last Line: Under satellite discs %to cybernetic ecstacy Subject(s): Family Life - India MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives MOON OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bright moon comes out from sky mountain Last Line: And in high chambers on this same night, %the sighs, I am sure, are not yet still Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life MOON'S REFLECTION IN A THOUSAND RIVERS, by MARY CHI-WHI KIM Poem Source First Line: One thousand miles spare me from slavery Last Line: To a thousand rivers, %reflecting one source Subject(s): Family Life; Rivers MOON, MOON, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon follows me street by street Subject(s): Moon; City & Town Life MOONLIGHT, by KIM SUJANG Poem Source First Line: Moonlight shines on the lotus pond Last Line: The span alloted me by heaven Subject(s): Life MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MOONS OF JUPITER, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: Last night my brother-in-law showed me jupiter Last Line: These loves, evolved and brutal; ancient; true Subject(s): Family Life; Jupiter (planet); Sky MORAL COSMETICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who would save your features florid Last Line: Time, fortune, fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Youth MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORDECAI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make friends with him! He is of royal line Last Line: Not his, comes from the gallows cubits high. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism MORE LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When spring-time prospers in the grass Last Line: More love, more light, more life! Subject(s): Life MORE LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not weary of thy world Last Line: O soul, awaiteth thee! Subject(s): Immortality; Life MORE PRETTY GIRLS THAN ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My mother told me one day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life MORE SNOW FALLING, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: One huge hush the whole day Last Line: No frills, just infinity Subject(s): Life; Snow MORE SONGS FROM LALLA: 1. THE PRANKSTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Let the breath come in, %and if a god, too Last Line: She is yourself, returning Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORE SONGS FROM LALLA: 2. THE FOLLOWER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Shiva is the god who dances Last Line: Child clamoring in the street, %the cries of birds, even Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORE THAN THE TAO, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: When some put on roles Last Line: At a certain hour, %nothing is happening Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life MORIARTY, ALLISON: PP.2, 18, 34, 35, 48, 50., by SUSAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's strange to see someone you knew from high school in Last Line: Dangling from this nightie like a bookmark, a reminder of who %knows what Subject(s): Life; Memory MORNING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, dillie, my darling, and kiss me Last Line: Avenges her slights. Subject(s): Morning; God; Life MORNING EXERCISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have no child or cat or bird Last Line: Insists on being walked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MORNING GLORIES, by JEAN-MARIE WELCH Poem Source First Line: The summer she was told Last Line: Like his prayer Subject(s): Absence; Plantation Life; Prayer MORNING IN THE ORCHARD (TO AN INVALID), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wake, they sing - both thrush and lass! Last Line: Than all our pears and apples are. Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Love; Morning MORNING ON THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, my lad! The sun is rising, it is a Last Line: Shoulder blades! Subject(s): Farm Life; Morning; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING PRELUDE, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Though sunrise haze I watch Last Line: To the music of morning Subject(s): Morning; Ranch Life MORNING SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on his face wakes him Last Line: Pierce a magician's box. Subject(s): Boys; Deer; Farm Life; Morning; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING STAR, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man alone gets up while the sea's still dark Last Line: The man quietly tamps his tobacco and lights his pipe Subject(s): Quiet Life; Silence; Solitude MORNING SUMMONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the mist is on the river, and the haze is on the hills Last Line: Lo! The dawn brings dew and fire and the rapture of the strong. Subject(s): Life; Mist; Morning; Soul MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When morning shows her first faint flush Last Line: And dark — so dark becomes the night. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love MORNING-GLORY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To argue from the design in the morning-glory Last Line: God. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MORROW, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: A pretty girl was dreaming Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life MORS ET VITA, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the soil a seed is sown Last Line: And the two make up the whole! Subject(s): Life; Death MORTAL PRACTICE, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: Raise the oars, be carried Last Line: Where you have landed Subject(s): Life; Waking MORTGAGE ON THE FARM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis gone at last, and I am glad Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortgages MORTIMER, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And as a traveler goes, alert to spy Last Line: And as a traveler -- goes. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips MOSAIC, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: Since dreams must die, as fragile as the lace Last Line: That life's mosaic be my soul's reprieve. Subject(s): Life; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion MOTET, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At odds again Last Line: Flex of possibility Subject(s): Life; Love; Transience MOTHER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: There's a hand so firm and tender Last Line: Is burnt in mother's heart. Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life; Home; Love; Mothers; Relatives MOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Somehow I just can't think of you Last Line: And knows that heaven's richer for the sound Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MOTHER, by JENNIFER LEE Poem Source First Line: I am not living Last Line: The curtains are closed %to cut the glare Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers MOTHER AMONG THE PHILODENDRA, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: She found the trusted leaves predictable Last Line: Beyond the riot of talk. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers MOTHER AND CHILD, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Hell of a place to start a family Last Line: The baby at her breast will save the world Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Family Life MOTHER MEMORY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Was there anger in the storm, so long ago Last Line: Spotlighting memory of mother love Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MOTHER WAITS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And mother waits %as only mother can Last Line: And speaks and listens %and tries to understand Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women MOTHER'S CURSE; FOR DIANE DI PRIMA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my pen: curses ride down Last Line: To meet the faces of women who take the words out of my mind. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Breast Feeding; Family Life; Life; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nursing (infants); Relatives MOTHER'S DAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Mothers gathered from miles around %when the mare foaled on mother's day Last Line: He whinnied as if to clear his throat: %'excuse me. I am a little horse' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MOTHER, MOTHER WHERE ARE YOU?, by KENNETH M. DAVIS Poem Source Subject(s): Spiritual Life MOTHERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother / here in your lap Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion; Relatives; Theology MOTHERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mother %here in your lap Last Line: When someone else %is as empty as a shoe Subject(s): Family Life; God; Religion MOTHS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: She said %while she looped her hair Last Line: Under the gargantuan leaf %patched on her quilt Subject(s): Family Life - India; Moths MOUNT PLEASANT, USA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: At night %I'm a man surprising himself Last Line: The cage I carry is the cage I made Subject(s): Family Life - India MOUNTAIN FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the agony of a mountain farm Last Line: All the night through an open and empty door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MOUNTAIN LIKKER, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: Usta be powerful likker around Last Line: Have to make his best guess %as to which one of'm done it Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ranch Life MOUNTAIN WOMEN, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: Some things have shone too gloriously Variant Title(s): Evidenc Subject(s): Farm Life MOVING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew and juliana moved seven times Last Line: To a florida flower bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MOVING DAYS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Five blocks away, your tulip trees are as bright Last Line: It was late summer. The trees were threading %their long fingers, leading me away %with their sweet, Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MOVING HOUSE, NO. 2, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In spring and fall there are many fine days Last Line: A man should provide his own food and clothing; %while I work the fields I am not false to myself Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life MOVING MY DWELLING: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long I've wanted to dwell in south village Last Line: In rare writings we'll find a shared delight, %between us we'll work out problems of meaning Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life; Simplicity MOVING: 1, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I dream up wan excuses like dumb fate Last Line: I leave four walls, loud echoes, and my tub Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MOVING: 2, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: To move to greener pastures by this shore Last Line: What we just sold away: fat chance of that Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MR AND MRS MARTIN, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Some time in the month of october Last Line: "maybe they will think it his son." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Relatives MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a dreamer of the days Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MR. WAKEFIELD ON INTERSTATE 90, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now I will abandon the route of my life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MRS. LING, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: In my father's house is a very large family Last Line: Mrs. Ling. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MRS. PORTNOY'S SONG, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Why do I love my son? Subject(s): Family Life MRS. STUART'S RETIREMENT, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the court to the cottage convey me away Last Line: But retire from the world as I would to my rest. Subject(s): Country Life MS. LIZ, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Educated - nearly out of college Last Line: For a vegetarian student teacher Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias. Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips MUCKRAKER, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That greasy letter into which my legs entered, Subject(s): Disappointment; Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MUD, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think that the little birches Last Line: And as the dark gruel thickens, %life will stick up a finger Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life MUD CREEK BEAVER, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Little worker I've walked a mile in these hot, floppy Last Line: I raise my rifle slowly, so very cold and heavny, %so uncompromising in my trembling, hesitant hands Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Ranch Life MUDDY ROAD TO ADAM JOHNSON'S HOUSE. AFTER ANDREW WYETH, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: It's this knowing the land by the names Last Line: In the first chill of winter Subject(s): Farm Life MUFF, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Made from a piece of her Last Line: Brand-new pair of shoes Subject(s): Family Life; Shopping; Travel MULBERRIES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: They fruit themselves into early june Last Line: Their wheels can take them anywhere Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MULLINS FARM, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun through the window Last Line: And the corn stalks crack in the air Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Farm Life MUMMY'S HAND, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: The poorest were cleared out simply, gutted Last Line: For your wrist. Feared, devout, simple. You, now, gutted Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Mummies MURDER OF THE CROWS, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: Shots rang out and birds Last Line: He said it was the crows Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life MURGATROYD, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Whenever we would open, there he stood Subject(s): Family Life; Troy MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MUSE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Entering this dream %like a limb of light Last Line: Its red string %in the hands of intruders Subject(s): Family Life - India MUSIC, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wanted a piano Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MUSIC, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wanted a piano Subject(s): Family Life MUSIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the tenants of the tomb Last Line: As brightly as its morn and noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Music & Musicians; Peace MUSIC AND POETRY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet words though weak are all that poets own Last Line: One aim, one work, one destiny they share. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN Poem Text First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis. Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life MUSIC OF RECTANGLES, by SCOTT R. POOLE Poem Source First Line: I enjoyed bad jobs, like collating at the united Last Line: The last one to die gets to be on top Subject(s): Death; Life MUSIC OF THE EARTH, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Tom was a fiddlin' farmer Subject(s): Farm Life MUSIC ROOM DUET, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Turn from me then, if so you must! Last Line: That ends not this side of heaven. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians MUSIC: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it light that spake from the dark- / ness, or music that shone from the word Last Line: In tune. Subject(s): Life; Morning; Music & Musicians MUSICIAN AT HIS WORK, by ROBERT CURRIE Poem Source First Line: Again the belt was off the flywheel Subject(s): Family Life MUSING, by HWANG KUMCHAN Poem Source First Line: When I, discontented with myself Last Line: A paper tiger that wails over spring famine Subject(s): Family Life MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability. Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces MUSTARD GREENS, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Before I-40 I pass the minnis back pasture Last Line: Driving the lush surface, how fast it will flip to its opposite Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Roads MUSTARD SEED GARDEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Distant, the tumults of a passing age Last Line: The sage and I stand spellbound, listening Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MUTE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's gotten so I can't say what's in my heart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY ARTIFACTS, MY CHILDREN, MY PARENTS, MY BOOKS, MY CONTINEN, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: In this room I say I live in, entire, entirely at home with my artifacts Last Line: From the mirror that is a pond, a door, a painting, a death Subject(s): Life MY AUNT ELLA MAE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was the first to tell me of juneteenth Subject(s): Aunts; African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives MY BORES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take their hands with placid smile Last Line: With but the few I love and me. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness MY BRAIN SWIMS EMPTY AND LIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tumbling and showing their legs and crying out to me loosely Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes MY BROTHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! And he has died so young Last Line: Those we grieve for love us yet! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Life; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MY BROTHER SHAKES THE BOTTLE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Davis is wearing his best irrelevant boots and jacket Last Line: All over %himself Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Native Americans MY CASTLE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: These changes how our lives they mar Last Line: When I too shall go home Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS; TO MY PARENTS, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Many poets great and gifted whom the muse's touch had blessed Last Line: When at last our bark is anchored there to spend our happiest days. Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood MY CHILDREN, by HAROLD CRAWFORD STEARNS Poem Text First Line: The stars-did you ever see stars Last Line: "yes, madam, to the sea." Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Stars; Childhood; Relatives MY CLOAK, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I took / some bits of life Last Line: I wear. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Self MY COUNTRY'S A ROCK, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: My country's a rock Last Line: In a delta of streams Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds And Shepherdesses MY COUSIN AGATHA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother used to invite my cousin agatha Last Line: Cheeks) a polychrome basket %of apples an grapes %on the ebony of an aged cabinet Subject(s): Family Life; Godparents MY COUSIN AGUEDA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother invited my cousin Last Line: Apples and grapes %in the ebony of an ancient cupboard Subject(s): Boys; Children; Family Life; Godparents MY COUSIN AGUEDA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother used to invite my cousin agueda Subject(s): Family Life; Godparents MY DAUGHTER CONSIDERS HER BODY, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: She examines her hand, fingers spread wide. Last Line: For risk. Learning to touch her wounds comes first. Subject(s): Family Life MY DAUGHTER'S FEET, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Years ago, before you stood alone, Last Line: Gretel's crumbs, and gretel, racing %wood and hawk and changeling night. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MY DAUGHTER'S NEW DOG, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I don't like to be licked %by a pup in the morning Last Line: Spread from a child's ways %to the child in me, now awake Subject(s): Family Life - India MY DEAD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give back the soul of youth once more! Last Line: I shall behold my dead again? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Youth; Dead, The MY DEAR MRS GALE-FROM MY LEAVING THE CRADLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The most 'ladle-like' personage under the sun! Subject(s): Caregivers; Family Life MY DEAREST FRANK, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest frank, I wish you joy Last Line: To fancy them just over-right us Subject(s): Family Life MY DESIRE, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: When earth's door shall close for me Last Line: And -- deathlessly. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MY DIAMOND STUD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: That wasnt once alive Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: DAD, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: My daddy drives a train Last Line: Sometimes, he plays our piano Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life MY FAMILY OF PEOPLE: MOM, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: My mommy wears flat earrings Last Line: Then mommy marks essay after essay Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life MY FARM: A FABLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a green and pleasant land Last Line: Do thou the same, my wiser brother! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Nature; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER DOESN'T TELL STORIES, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My father slices a summer tomato on the counter. Last Line: No sun is at my back, bursting its seeds %in my mouth, stretching darkly behind me. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love MY FATHER IN THE NIGHT COMMANDING NO, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My father kept a horse and my mother kept a mare Last Line: "had a nip from the flea, had a bite from the louse" Subject(s): Animals;family Life;horses; Relatives MY FATHER TELLS THIS STORY ABOUT HIS BROTHER FRANK AND THE WICK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Your grandpa marquart, he was a tight sonofabitch you know every Last Line: Your grandfather, I'm telling you, now there was a tight man Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Money MY FATHER WAS A FARMER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a farmer upon the carrick border, o Last Line: A cheerful honest-hearted clown I will prefer before you, o. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MY FATHER'S GHOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father's ghost would never hang around the house Last Line: Come to me in living, my whole life long! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MY FATHER'S GHOST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I counted them, and now I look through the door Last Line: My father's ghost in my arms in his dark doorway Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives MY FATHER'S GHOST, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I counted them, and now I look through the door Last Line: My father's ghost in my arms in his dark doorway Subject(s): Family Life MY FATHER'S HEART, by STUART FRIEBERT Poem Source First Line: He longs to open his arms, we can see that Subject(s): Family Life MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by WILLA KORETZ Poem Source First Line: The building is flat Subject(s): Family Life MY FATHER'S LEAVING, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back, he was gone. Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers; Abandonment; Family Life; Desertion; Relatives MY FATHER'S MARTIAL ART, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Full Text First Line: When he came home mother said he looked Last Line: This oncoming traffic with your hah, hah, hah. Subject(s): Family Life - China MY FATHER, FAR IN SOME HOSPITAL, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I startle him with my late Last Line: I rage gently, %'goodnight' Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Fathers; Love; Old Age; Telephones MY FRIENDS, by MIKHAIL LUKONIN Poem Source First Line: In hospital %whiteness is all Last Line: Love life, and that's all that you need Subject(s): Life MY FRIENDS, WHY SHOULD WE LIVE?, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some far remote and heavenward hill to gain Subject(s): Life MY GARDEN OF BLIGHTED HOPES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sowed in the hours of life's morning Last Line: In my garden of blighted hopes. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Optimism MY GRAMDMOTHER HATED MY BOYFRIEND, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: All his pleases thank yous Last Line: Died. She must have hated you Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relationships MY GRANDFATHER BURNING CORNFIELDS, by ROGER SAULS Poem Source First Line: The only light at this hour Subject(s): Family Life MY GRANDFATHER DYING, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could see bruises or shadows Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MY GRANDFATHER DYING, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could see bruises or shadows Subject(s): Family Life MY GRANDFATHER'S AND FATHER'S HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The two old-timers stand out west of town Last Line: Every cowboy has a horse that's not for sale Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life MY GRANDMOTHER HATED THE NEIGHBORS, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Every saturday morning, in 3-inch heels Last Line: Down to their knees and her %- an american - with them Subject(s): Family Life; Religion MY GRANDMOTHER WASHES HER FEET, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see her still, unsteadily riding the edge Last Line: I never had the guts to stir that earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Feet; Grandparents MY GREAT UNCLE PATRICK HENRY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fortune to be made in just about everything Subject(s): Family Life; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity MY HEART IS EVER WEARY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My heart is weary, weary Last Line: Be as wretched as I to day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY HEART UNFOLDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Last Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night Last Line: The heaven in your love. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise MY JOB, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder where's a better job than buying cake and meat Last Line: Than serving day by day the needs of little girls and boys. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dreary evening Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!' Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY LAST AFTERNOON WITH UNCLE DEVEREUX WINSLOW, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't go with you. I want to stay with grandpa!' Last Line: Uncle devereux would blend to the one color Variant Title(s): Life Studies: My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslo Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents MY LAST UNCLE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He appeared at union station Last Line: With his suitcase and dreams Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MY LAWRENCE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The future, rain in every syllable and cell Last Line: It was raining and no one knew who lawrence was Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness MY LIFE, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: At first I knew how to pray and shark Last Line: That I suddenly came out ahead of them Subject(s): Life MY LIFE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life has been the poem I could have writ Last Line: But I could not both live and utter it. Subject(s): Life; Transcendentalism MY LIFE, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: Somehow it got into my room Last Line: Together, we will not get through this Subject(s): Animals; Life MY LIFE, THE QUALITY OF WHICH, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But you hav to feel for it Subject(s): Life; Desperation MY LIFE: AS FOR WE WHO LOVE TO BE ASTONISHED, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spill the sugar when you lift the spoon. My father had filled an old Last Line: You cannot determine the nature of progress until you assemble all of the relatives Subject(s): Family Life MY LIFE: YET WE INSIST THAT LIFE IS FULL OF HAPPY CHANCE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windows were open and the morning air was, by the smell of lilac Last Line: Luck was rid of its clover Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY LOVE, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Source First Line: My love is neither young nor old Subject(s): Country Life MY MARY; AIR: BROKEN VOW, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I have learned to love thee, mary Last Line: I shall love thee just the same Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY MASTER, by HARRY LEE Poem Source First Line: My master was so very poor Last Line: So very rich my master was, %he gave his all and knew no loss Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion MY MEADOW, MY TWILIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It's still inside me Last Line: But who will help me Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER'S HANDS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yawning, she yanks the shuttle through the frame Last Line: Stuck motionlless and never moved Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Hands; Relatives MY MOTHER'S PEARS, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plump, green-gold, worcester's pride Last Line: Dig the hole deeper Subject(s): Farm Life MY MOTHER, CLIMBING HER FAMILY TREE, by DONNA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: When I write to my mother asking about relatives Last Line: Daily, through the holy, holy land we are living in now Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Grandparents MY MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORS, by MILDRED GAVITT DODGE Poem Text First Line: The hem of her skirt makes a path to my gate Last Line: My tall mountain neighbors and I. Subject(s): Country Life; Neighbors MY MUSE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My muse like a harp that is stringless & broken Last Line: One up in heaven, we fully can trust Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY NATIVE HOME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My home - o my home by that silvery streamlet Last Line: We'll meet in a brighter forever to dwell Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY NATURAL MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My natural mama %is gingerbread Last Line: Is gingerbread, %brown and spicy sweet Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life MY NEIGHBOR, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: The girl who lives next to us Last Line: Like an animal Subject(s): Courtship; Farm Life; Neighbors MY NEW WORLD, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Text First Line: My prow is tending toward the west Last Line: In my new world. Subject(s): Progress; Conduct Of Life MY NURSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: A young woman came sitting at our door Last Line: Had I had the pleasure to live with a queen Subject(s): Family Life - China MY OWN EPITAPH, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a jest, and all things show it Last Line: I thought so once; but now I know it. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Work; Workers MY OWN LAND, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I have come back at last to my own land Subject(s): Farm Life MY PAPA MOSTLY WITH A NEEDLE, by SAVINA A. ROXAS Poem Source First Line: Sewed custom-made coats for Subject(s): Family Life MY PARENTS, KNOW IT WELL, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source Last Line: And count as human-beings Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents MY PICTURE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how the eye on the picture stops Last Line: Shall it be as I have said? Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Life MY PICTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand this way - more near the window Last Line: It shall stay and cheer the end! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Portraits; Secrets MY PICTURE GALLERY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You write and think of me, my friend, with pity Last Line: That owns a picture gallery half as grand? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life MY PIPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fig for your flagons of sour old wine Last Line: I'm content with this old pipe of mine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Loneliness MY POEMS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: They come when I am churning Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets MY POOR NEIGHBOR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My neighbor hath a lordly pile Last Line: While I have home—and you, my dear! Subject(s): Blessings; Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Neighbors; Poverty; Wealth; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Riches; Fortunes MY PROLOGUE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heat of youth, 'tis heat suppressed Last Line: It well may be; and they that read will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Praise; Youth; Nightmares MY RESTING PLACE IS IN THE DEEP WOODS NOW, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wild ducks drifting on the waves as far as the eye can see Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Farm Life; Zen Buddhism MY SABINE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My sabine farm, or, sooth to speak Last Line: My sabine farm! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY SHATTERED SISTER, by NAOMI HELENA QUINONEZ Poem Source First Line: Sister, I wish to be the waters Last Line: Of america to the south Subject(s): Family Life; Mexican American Families; Sisters MY SHIP, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My ship is on the ocean Last Line: From seas so far away Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio MY SISTER'S BOYFRIEND, by MELISSA KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: Like a mastiff, jowly Last Line: Impossible for anything %to feel quite right again Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Last Line: Protected by a cloud let down by the gods to save him Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States MY SWEET LITTLE LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: By easy stages, my sweet little louis xi from nantes to his little Last Line: To tickle the dame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MY THREE AUNTS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: My three aunts seldom smiled, my three aunts Last Line: A shroud epoch hangs on her bed like a drunken ghost Subject(s): Family Life - China MY WEATHER, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious, Last Line: I hold these Subject(s): Life MY WHOLENESS IS DEPENDENT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon both states existing Subject(s): Life MY WILL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have no lands or houses Last Line: You will keep them for my sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Life; Love; Wills MYRRH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas is laughter, tinsel, light Last Line: A dream of peace we follow still Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to live with myself, and so Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology MYSELF AND MINE GYMNASTIC EVER, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I perceive I have no time to lose Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MYSTERIES OF LIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said, 'let there be light, and there was light' Last Line: We'll read the mystery of life, and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Life MYSTERIOUS LIFE, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: O life, o mysterious life Last Line: "so before, ""oh, beware,"" I say." Subject(s): Failure; Life MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sow the glebe, we reap the corn Last Line: Soon large enough for death. Variant Title(s): Human Life's Mystery Subject(s): God; Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MYSTERY, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: What do you hide, o treacherous smooth ocean Last Line: Or is there only some sad, strange sea-weed? Subject(s): Life MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The mystery of christmas fills the house Last Line: It's built upon a birthday and a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Last Line: Crying my name among blind fish, %wanting so much to come home Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents MYSTERY STORY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The story dry riverbed %twist and turn between steep bank Last Line: What I wouldnt give to know Subject(s): Country Life MYSTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is a mill of hooks---- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Life MYTH, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The risen watchers stand. Subject(s): Life MYTHE, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: There is a couple with a baby Last Line: Or the end of the story Subject(s): Family Life; Fights NADAR, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: It is said he lives for machines that are lighter Last Line: A whale asleep in the lavender scent of a fresh valise Subject(s): Life NAGASAKI JOURNAL: AUGUST 9, 1945, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light coughed; %cleared its throat of matter Last Line: For another fifty years Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Life; Nagasaki, Japan NAKED, by JOHANNA SCHOUTEN-ELSENHOUT Poem Source First Line: What am I? Last Line: Naked I was born %naked I'll die Subject(s): Death; Life; Nudity NAMES OF HORSES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers NAMES OF HORSES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding Last Line: O roger, mackerel, riley, ned, nellie, chester, lady ghost Subject(s): Farm Life; Love NANCY CHURNING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mute, homely, that was our Last Line: Where she rubs herself with the soot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland NATIVE SON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Only asparagus!' Last Line: And he met it everywhere Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NATURE AND LIFE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the uproar: at a leap Last Line: Give we it, and good the kiss. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets NATURE EXHIBIT, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: In the museum of drawers Last Line: Or want of such attention Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives NATURE'S INSURGENTS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye mighty powers that haunt us Last Line: Shall find us restful still. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Nature; Tears; Destiny NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Silence golden is, I say Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining? Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise NATURE'S TEMPLE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun moved down the western sky Last Line: For the immortal name of god. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Nature; Temples; Mosques NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.' Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs NAZCA POTTERY, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: I recall that time when once I lived Last Line: Soft forms faithful to the hand's caress Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Nature; Peru NEAR EARTH REARS THEM, by H. L. WHITCHER Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life NEAR RELATION, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months after it happened my brother sent gifts Last Line: Like a yellow lance penetrating her skull, but she is smiling Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships NEAR THE BRAVO 20 BOMBING RANGE, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I bring the mare a green apple & then we ride Last Line: From the still water Subject(s): Farm Life NEARING DAWN, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunbreak. The sky opens its magazine. If you look hard Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NEBRASKA, EARLY MARCH, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: The sun one hour from setting Last Line: Under my wildest touch each %indivisible strand Subject(s): Farm Life NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live. Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEEDFIRE, THIS LOW HEAVEN, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noticing a snow-filled shopping cart Last Line: The sockets of flowers Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives NEEDFIRE, THIS LOW HEAVEN, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Noticing a snow-filled shopping cart Last Line: Hums up, charging %the sockets of flowers Subject(s): Family Life NEIGHBORS IN OCTOBER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon his tractor pulls a wagon Last Line: Bagging gold for the cold days to come Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NEIGHBORS IN OCTOBER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon his tractor pulls a wagon Last Line: Bagging gold for the cold days to come Subject(s): Farm Life NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: We catch only glimpses of you Last Line: Leftward, into what was and will be %your green world Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Daughters; Family Life NERVOUS FAMILY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're all nervous, very very nervous Last Line: And we're all nervous at our house in town Subject(s): Family Life; Fear NERVOUS FAMILY: ALTERNATIVE VERSION, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt said I must marry, since there was none but I Last Line: For we're all & c Subject(s): Family Life; Single People NESTS IN ELMS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks are cawing up and down the trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Birds; Life; Death; Birds; Dead, The NEVER A GRAVE CAN HOLD ME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is never a grave can hold me Subject(s): Farm Life NEVER LET US THINK, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Never let us think that waddingham or montoya Last Line: Never let us think that we shall be the last Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NEVER MND, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind the pins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships NEVER TO DREAM OF SPIDERS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time collapses between the lips of strangers Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence NEVER TOO LATE: THE HERMIT'S VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here look, my son, for no vain-glorious shows Last Line: To overthrow the strength of satan's jar. Subject(s): Advice; Devil; Life; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sort of eternity Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism NEW BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will wear / new bones again Last Line: We know Subject(s): Life NEW BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will wear %new bones again Last Line: How strong life is. %we know Subject(s): Life NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: Houses of generous, ample line Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers. Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time NEW ENGLAND, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Land of my birth! New england dear Last Line: Yet heart to thee is true Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: She faces life across a willow plate Last Line: Who rings herself with aureoles of race! Subject(s): Family Life; New England; Relatives NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NEW FOLKS BOUGHT THE PLACE, by PEGGY O'CONNELL Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROBERT (2) FISHER Poem Source First Line: A touch and taste of all that's naive and Subject(s): Farm Life NEW HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: He gets all the spoiled horses Last Line: That cowboy, he's one of ours Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NEW INSTRUCTIONS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Loving the healing therapy Last Line: So much to learn... %so little time Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NEW KID IS OUTFITTED, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: They decked him down with boots and leggings Last Line: He thirsted out of broken legs Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NEW MOTHERS, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Nearly seven %walls loosen, it's already dark Subject(s): Family Life NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sold my brownstone windows full of leaves Last Line: Their clopping rhythm muffled in fresh snow. Subject(s): Cities; Moving & Movers; Winter; Urban Life NEW PERSPECTIVE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Beside the highway, a modern brick house Last Line: I didn't know it was beautiful!' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NEW RANCH WIFE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: A bride %walks love-first Last Line: Burns the toast again, %and settles in Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NEW RULE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice Last Line: So / clear Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Squirrels NEW SPRING: 4, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I'm thankful %that I'm still alive Last Line: I hear the budding sound of life %and a bird's song Subject(s): Gratitude; Life; Prisons And Prisoners NEW SPRING: 6, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Bees %visit flowers Last Line: At the wonder of all living things Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nature; Spring NEW SPRING: 8, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I wonder %how old I really am Last Line: Even a blade of grass %and me Subject(s): Aging; Future Life NEW VERMONT NAMES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to like the lowery days Last Line: And every horsepond crystal lake. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Vermont NEW WIFE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: My officemate tells me Last Line: Their days glistening like the salt %in the corners of her mouth. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love NEW YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Past slanting pastures new with snow Last Line: Can make it last! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH AGING PARENTS, by G. W. CLIFT Poem Source First Line: This time of year my habit says that I Last Line: Claims our focus, this homely holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Parents NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by ANNEKE VAN ZINDRAN Poem Text First Line: My city, maligned and found wanting Last Line: We shall go wandering. Subject(s): Cities; Wandering & Wanderers; Urban Life NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEWBORN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mannikin who just now Last Line: As though mankind's begun %again in you Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events NEWS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Because sadness pursued me Subject(s): Human Rights; Life NEXT DAY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the cycles of wash and rinse, a song Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NEXT MIDNIGHT, EVEN QUIETER, by JANE AUGUSTINE Poem Source First Line: Afternoon in the mind's eye Last Line: Where the roses pinked the tangle %and these darken too Subject(s): Night; Quiet Life NEXT YEAR, LOCUSTS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Plough the stubble. Set the drawbar deep Last Line: And the first cutworm chews a tender root Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality NICO AND DORUS, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And are you there, old pas! In troth, I ever thought Subject(s): Country Life NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT CELESTIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the towns by neon. The plants and camps Subject(s): City & Town Life NIGHT CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The night child lifts himself from sleep Last Line: Dark safely wraps the night - struck child Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NIGHT FALLS ON THE BRIDGE, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sand, sand, sand Last Line: South dakota, nebraska. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: The night is still Last Line: And life eternal springs. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT IN AVIGNON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gherardo %listen. Another word, francesco Last Line: The green of the whole fair world!...O laura! %laura Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Soul; Women NIGHT LEGACY, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: In the one-roomed house of the germans Last Line: But when they wake up and grow old %they will remember Subject(s): Ranch Life NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 8. A HOST OF SPIRITS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We fought and saw the stars and fell Last Line: Take us; like men we fought. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Life; Dead, The NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got home late and drank most Last Line: What you touched %and how it made you feel Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays; Drills & Minor Tactics NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SOLITUDE, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Far down the dark avenue of trees Last Line: Toys. . . . Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life NIGHT THOUGHTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My sudden, unexpected wish for mashed potatoes Subject(s): Life Choices; Desire NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIGHT-PIECE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw within the shadows of the yard the shed Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence NIGHTINGALE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One morning, one morning, one morning in may Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life NIGHTMARE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Not so much the stare %or the hand Last Line: You grope to hide %in the shadow of her hand Subject(s): Family Life - India NIGHTMARE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Expecting to be put in a sack and dumped in a ditch Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Family Life NIGHTMARE WE WAKEN FROM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Grateful, is somebody else's life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature NIGHTTIME FIRES, by REGINA BARRECA Poem Source First Line: When I was five in louisville Last Line: Rearview mirror, eyes like hallways filled with smoke Subject(s): Family Life; Fire NIKOS OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nikos, she said, don't kill yourself Last Line: One minute left for dead, %the next putting on aftershave Subject(s): Life; Social Problems NINON! QUE FAIS-TU DE LA VIW?, by BORRIES FREIHERR VON MUNCHHAUSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are you making out of life Last Line: When you grow old, ninon! Subject(s): Aging; Life; Youth NIRVANA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divest thyself, o soul, of vain desire Last Line: In rapture lost be lapped within the all. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NO APOLOGIES, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the way Last Line: That sent things %wrong Subject(s): Ranch Life NO CEREMONY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Being forgotten is another kind of dying Last Line: No mourners left Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO CHANCE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who never had a chance, the victim Last Line: Same old whine—because he hadn't any spine. Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Pity; Relatives NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NO CROWN, LORD, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life NO DEATH, by MARY BAGGOTT Poem Text First Line: How do I know there is no death?' Last Line: "there is no death." Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NO GLACIER PUSHED ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I sat down near a quartz - filled pudding stone Last Line: At rest upon this catskill hilltop farm? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO GUARANTEES, by HENRY F. HILL Poem Source First Line: Relying on luck alone Last Line: In the lapse of the gods Subject(s): Life NO HEAVEN, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last prayer in the book Subject(s): Life; Passion NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF, by JOHN DONNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Subject(s): Life Change Events NO MOURNING, BY REQUEST, by WINIFRED HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Come not to mourn for me with solemn tread Last Line: And be most merry - after I am dead Subject(s): Life Change Events NO ONE KNOWS THE COUNTRYSIDE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard the eager rain Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Country Life NO SILVER SWATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This snail shell is an empty hall Last Line: I mark my kinship with the snail Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO SINGLE THING ABIDES; BUT ALL THINGS FLOW, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Life Change Events NO STONE TO HEFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The black earth welcomes the exploding seed Last Line: Today I have no stone to heft and tote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO STRANGE FLOWERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Tottering a little on unsteady feet Last Line: In normandy Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO THANKS: 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pr / gress verily thou art m Last Line: Aseball Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Death; Parents; Graveyards; Relatives; Dead, The; Parenthood NO TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: From room to room he roared and strode Last Line: A barkin' dog has no time to bite Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fathers; Fear NO TIME IN ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By houres we all live here, in heaven is known Last Line: No spring of time, or times succession. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NO WORDS ARE BORN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beyond the parapets of outer space Last Line: Lucid enough to tell the tale to me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO, NEVER, by BESSIE IRONS GRAUCH Poem Text First Line: Life is but a joke, you say? Last Line: Of its honest, own endeavor. Subject(s): Life NOBIS NATUS IN PRETIUM: NOBIS DATUS IN PRAETIUM, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god! I had been nothing but for thee Last Line: Save what th' hast bought at such a rate! Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life NOBLESSE OBLIGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it the duty of one who is gifted Last Line: Which lifts up the king to the crown's demands. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOCTURNAL QUESTION, by GEORGE RICHARD KAYTON Poem Text First Line: Now breaks the moon through clouds of purple haze Last Line: Wracked as they are with want and social pain . . . Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NOCTURNE, by PATRICIA BURNS FLINN Poem Text First Line: Night is so beautiful, I watch it on my knees Last Line: Make life so marvelous, I live it on my knees. Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by MARJORIE RUSSO Poem Source First Line: I held the frail hand of dying day Last Line: It is the precious treasure of owls, bats, %and all insomniacs Subject(s): Life; Night NOCTURNES & AUBADES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the night's minute disturbances Last Line: Shattered glass of stars to you. . . . Subject(s): Life; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNES & AUBADES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the night's minute disturbances Last Line: We sail, like rain, against the sky Subject(s): Life; Night NOISE LEVEL, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I can't endure the city traffic Last Line: The howl of the coyote vies %with the call of the dove Subject(s): Ranch Life NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NOMADS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Here, where we have traced Last Line: To swim through tossing sand Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life NONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You died. And because you were greek they gave you Last Line: " Subject(s): Life NONE WITH HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, to live: how didst thou bear to live Last Line: Thy spirit saith Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Jesus Christ NOONTIDE, by LOYCE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: We live Last Line: Is life. Subject(s): God; Life; Strength NOR A BORROWER BE, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: New pickup, shiny, clean pulls into the yard Last Line: There is no solace %in each other's arms Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Ranch Life NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Here earth and sky and thudding hoofs of horses Last Line: Bringing its elder presence -- and closed eyes. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NORTH FORK REFLECTIONS, by DANIEL T. MORAN Poem Source First Line: Behind cedar and clapboard Last Line: As it climbs and descends once, %and again Subject(s): Country Life NORTH SOUTH, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is a dog with failing hindquarters Subject(s): Life NORTHBOUND CROWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I know it is spring when I hear them talk Last Line: The flight to the north is cluttered and loud Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NORTHERN FARMER, NEW STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaawy? Last Line: Proputty, proputty, proputty -- canter an' canter awaay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cynicism; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN FARMER, OLD STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea liggin' 'ere aloan? Last Line: Git ma my aale, I tell tha, an' if I mun doy I mun doy. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN MICHIGAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this back road the land Last Line: Through the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Landscape; Michigan; Nature; Rot; Decadence NOT A SUICIDE POEM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The children talk of suicide Last Line: Depending on hwere you stand, sometimes large, %sometimes not Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Healing; Love NOT A SUICIDE POEM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You tell me the boys %in art class carve geometrics Last Line: Come through drought and frost, %we were planted side by side. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I work for a newspaper Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers NOT ALONE, by CRYSTAL V. BACON Poem Source First Line: I would say my life is a shell Last Line: My life, my death when it comes, with you, %and not alone Subject(s): Life NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians NOT FOR THAT CITY, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for that city of the level sun Last Line: Too sound for waking and for dreams too deep Subject(s): Life Change Events NOT KNOWING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By then, by the time my brother Last Line: Every live and dead tree Subject(s): Adolescence; Family Life NOT KNOWING WHEN THE DAWN WILL COME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or billows, like a shore Subject(s): Conduct Of Life NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When kai is born Subject(s): Family Life; Birth; Relatives; Child Birth; Midwifery NOTE TO BE SEALED IN A BOTTLE:, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am a star - flung castaway Last Line: And offer me the great voyage home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of daybreak Subject(s): Family Life; Negritude (literary Movement); Relatives NOTES ON AGING, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Beneath me he slows, halts Last Line: Dream about it for fifty years, %you grow wise Subject(s): Aging; Ranch Life NOTES ON LOVE AND COURAGE, by HUGH PRATHER Poem Source First Line: The quiet thoughts %of two people a long time in love Last Line: Of wrapping themselves warmly %in each other's ease Subject(s): Life Change Events NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood NOTHING GOES TO WASTE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Rearing on spindly legs Last Line: Nothing goes to waste Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's first green is gold Last Line: Nothing gold can stay. Subject(s): Gold; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence NOTHING IS STRANGE TO A CHILD FOR WHOM EVERYTHING IS NEW, by KENNETH L. PATTON Poem Source Last Line: In the child's country there are no foreigners Subject(s): Life Change Events NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Even when reading, strange things take place Last Line: Left standing at break of day, we are learning %to move about in time Subject(s): Books; Life NOTHING TO EAT, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: I went out and left him to scrounge Subject(s): Family Life NOTICE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Because sadness was following me Last Line: Say that sadness was following me %and I sought freedom on an island %you can't find on any map Subject(s): Human Rights; Life NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of Last Line: Are ever revealed! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOVELS IN HAIKU: SIX: THE EPIC, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Span continents, jump generations. Worms of unhappiness speed %death Last Line: Ancient, she poisoned her husband for reasons unknown, lived three %more (blissful) decades Subject(s): Aging; Life NOVEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The sun sets on a day of peace and labor Last Line: I see a human fire burning Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Nature; November NOVEMBER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who said november's face was grim Last Line: Knows she has sweetness all her own. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Forests; Life; November; Woods NOVEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the day Last Line: Climbing the heights of heaven, to stand supreme at his solstice! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; November; Destiny NOVEMBER CALF, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She calved in the ravine, beside Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOVEMBER CALF, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She calved in the ravine, beside Last Line: A frayed and knotted scrap of rope Subject(s): Farm Life NOVEMBER DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tattered day is a hand - me - down Last Line: As winter sweeps in with ermine and pearls! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOVEMBER HARVEST, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: Barns huddle over the horns Last Line: Sprouting out to us %in our mutual darkness Subject(s): Family Life; History NOW, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see it: a few years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste NOW THAT YOUR SHOULDERS REACH MY SHOULDERS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My shoulders once were yours for riding Subject(s): Family Life NOW THE SLOW DAWN, by BELLE TURNBULL Poem Text First Line: Now the slow dawn relentless along the prairie Last Line: Go out to the north mowing. Surely the dream will keep. Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; Sunrise; Agriculture; Farmers NOW THIS IS THE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: May you help us all to finish our roads Subject(s): Life Change Events NOW YOU WILL FEEL NO RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And may your days be good and long upon the earth Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love - Marital NUMBER NINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On a dark stormy night Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life NUPTIAL ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass from the earth,deep shadows of the night Last Line: And holiest silence seal the marriage night! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); England; Wedding Song; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Epithalamium NURSERY REMINISCENCES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember Last Line: Must be whipp'd and sent to bed!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Punishment; Relatives O DEAR! HOW DISGUSTING IS LIFE!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O bother an ill fitting shoe! Subject(s): Ill-tempered; Life O FIRE OF GOD, THE COMFORTER, by HILDEGARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fire of god, the comforter, o life of all that live Last Line: Who givest us the prize of light, who art thyself all praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion O HADA CIBERNETICA: 1, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Why have they moved me Last Line: In water air or fire? Subject(s): Life O HADA CIBERNETICA: 13, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: If by chance %the cibernetic fairy Last Line: The highest peak, %and the popular Subject(s): Life O LIFE IS LIFE FOR EVERMORE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The west wind blows the shadow goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Future Life O LITTLE FAIRIES..., by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little fairies, under your long, long hair Last Line: What matter that I know it false and vain . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Elves O LOVE, O LOVE, THESE OCEANS VAST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who has felt on his dark bed Subject(s): Life O PRECIOUS MUSE, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Had I, when I was younger Last Line: A modest hour with you. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Love; Muses; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is / not with us enough Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is %not with us enough Last Line: Hungry, and plucking %the fruit Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion O THAT THIS WEARY WAR OF LIFE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The churchyard stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Life O WALY, WALY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, all you fair and tender ladies Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life O YE, WHO ARE NOT DEAD AND FIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With love, and cast their lot with you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love O-H-H-HM HE FIDDLED WITH HIS HOE AND HE, by WILLIAM HELMER Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OAK TREE IN THE ROAD, by KEITH VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: It was as a young man I first saw the tree Last Line: And the miracle of all existence Subject(s): Aging; Life; Oak Trees OASIS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: The late rains that have advanced everything so wonderfully Subject(s): Farm Life OATS OF WRATH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You want cash in a trust?' Last Line: Hair laid flat by the gust, %a boy waits out the storm Subject(s): Child Molesting; Farm Life; Homosexuality; Parents OBAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful oban with your lovely bay Last Line: And feast my eyes on your beautiful scenery, enchanting and gay. Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips OBERMAIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Obermais! Obermais! / charming bit of paradise Last Line: Thou hast won my heart and soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Joy; Delight; Paradise OBLIQUE MUSCLE (MEDITATION ON A FAMOUS BLINDNESS), by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: When I consider how my light is spent... Last Line: Think of how your light is spent. Blink. It's enough Subject(s): Blindness; Life; Light OBSERVATION, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: I saw a life enter a life, yesterday, by the water Last Line: There were still two birds: one who carries. One carried away Subject(s): Birds; Life OBSERVATION, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I don't drive around the park, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 21. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man wary lives, yet most secure Last Line: Th' earth his sober inn, but still heav'n his home Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE OF EPICTETUS, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: Poor epictetus, born the slave of fate Last Line: Of every spark of good we think or do. Subject(s): Epicetus (60-140); Fate; Heaven; Life; Stoicism; Destiny; Paradise OBSERVER, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: On a white-hot july afternoon Last Line: Anticipating her energy return Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina OBSESSIVE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OCEAN GROVE HYMN, by ELWOOD H. STOKES Poem Text First Line: God of the grove, where leaves of green Last Line: And all be pure at ocean grove. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 26. LIFE'S USURPATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them, sweet evening breeze poised here, no less Last Line: I must yield up my cherished loneliness. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Life OCTOBER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smudge for the horizon Subject(s): Family Life; Autumn; Childhood Memories; Nature; Relatives; Fall OCTOBER AGAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October again Last Line: Is harder to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OCTOBER FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little flame breaks out Subject(s): Country Life OCTOBER MORNING WALK, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: On the pond, frost floats like rice paper Last Line: Into the dark-tufted meadow where frost's %fragile language sparkles on his tongue Subject(s): Family Life; History OCTOBER RICHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I love the helterskelter untidiness of leaves Last Line: I am a gold leaf millionaire Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OCTOBER-MIDST, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mornings careless, sun-sprawled, radical with light Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to the muse's lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): City & Town Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that heaven ordains me here Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "if gold could lengthen life, I swear" Last Line: That once I had the world my slave Subject(s): Life ODE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in the middle ages didn't think they were living Subject(s): Middle Ages; Conduct Of Life; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far back in the ages Last Line: And feeds the expectant nations. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales ODE TO HIMSELF, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, leave the loathed stage Last Line: And see his chariot triumph 'bove his wain. Variant Title(s): On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY], by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay Last Line: To civilise with graver notes our wits again. Variant Title(s): Ode On Leaving The Great Town;an Ode To Mr Anthony Stafford To Hasten Him Into The Country Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life ODE TO MY SON'S FORGOTTEN CAP, by LU V. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Take this cap Subject(s): Family Life ODE TO NIGHT, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Night, and her ornamented canopy Subject(s): Country Life ODE TO THE EARLIEST SNOWDROP, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Chaste flower, I fear to do thee wrong! Last Line: A rival host should mar. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Life; Winter ODE TO THE MIDWEST, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be doused Subject(s): Middle West; Conduct Of Life; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States ODE X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you, my friend, true bliss obtain Last Line: Be humble, and contract your sails. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Joy; Delight ODE: ON THE NEW YEAR, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of my life! Inspire my song Last Line: The bleeding traitor from my breast. Subject(s): Blessings; Holidays; Life; New Year ODES I, 38. ON THE SIMPLE LIFE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, lad, I loathe these persian pomps Last Line: Beneath the vine! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life; Simplicity ODES II, 3, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, when blinde fortune knits her brow Last Line: Finde in their grave as warm and easie beds Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life ODES II, 3. AEQUAM MEMENTO, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A level mind in crooked times Last Line: On the packet boat to eternal exile Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life ODES II, 3. LIFE IS SHORT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When life is hard, your soul possess Last Line: Of exile's barge without recall Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life; Time ODES III, 23. TO PHIDYLE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O phidyle, my country girl, if at the new moon Last Line: No less welcome than the most sumptuous sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean OEDIPAL GHAZAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The family in the cabin, playing cards. The cards Last Line: As if the family lived in a house of cards Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Card Games; Family Life OF A PRECISE TAILOR, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tailor, a man of an upright dealing Last Line: "of such-a-coloured silk in all the flag." Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Life; Tailors; Dress Makers OF ALL GOOD MEDICINES I LABEL BEST, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OF BEING IS A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For ecstasy of it Variant Title(s): Poem: 462; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Birds; Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 10, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or, in that light, new arts! Dithyrambic, audience-as-artists! But I will listen to a man Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is that light Subject(s): Modern Life; Empire State Building, New York City OF BEING NUMEROUS, 13, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to begin Subject(s): Alienation Social Psychology); City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 14, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot even now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Veterans; City & Town Life; Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS, 19, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the helicopters the casual will Subject(s): City & Town Life; Life, Modern OF BEING NUMEROUS, 2, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So spoke of the existence of things Subject(s): Skyscrapers; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 6, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We are pressed, pressed on each other Subject(s): City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 7, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Obsessed, bewildered Subject(s): Shipwrecks; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 8, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Amor fati / the love of fate Subject(s): Fate; City & Town Life; Destiny OF GARDENS, by FRANCIS BACON Poem Source First Line: God almightie first planted a garden Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Subject(s): Country Life OF LIFE TO OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But never touch the reservoir Variant Title(s): Poem: 1294; Poem: 132 Subject(s): Life OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OF MY LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weary of my life Last Line: If I might die! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The OF ONE FLESH, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man he was who loved the good Last Line: He was thy brother, and was mine! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Conduct Of Life; Forgiveness OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION, by THOMAS PAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the Last Line: This love for society ceases to act. It begins and ends with our being Subject(s): Life Change Events OF SPECIES RUMINANTIA, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Let folly fragrant be, chimera breathe Last Line: So shall our feet grow hooves, and folly eyes Subject(s): Life OF THE BLESSINGS ATTENDING MANKIND, CONTRADICTING POSEIDIPPUS, by METRODORUS Poem Text First Line: Happy mankind! For where we fix to live Last Line: That wish they'd ne'er been born; or soon as born had died. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight OF THE CHANGES OF LIFE, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek about this world unstable Last Line: So is this world and ever has been. Subject(s): Life; Transience; Impermanence OF THE MISERIES ATTENDING MANKIND, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mis'ry of mankind! For at the bar Last Line: That we had ne'er been born: or soon as born had died. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Some day I will have babies with %high Last Line: All the colors Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness OF THIS GRACE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I did nothing to deserve this Last Line: Petal by petal, %a hidden sun Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OF WHAT IS LIFE?, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the kind of work you do Last Line: "I can say, ""it was good to live." Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight OF WINDS, SNOWS AND THE STARS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O witchery of the winter night Last Line: And the red moon sinks beyond the west. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Bedtime OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: These sons %become me Last Line: Become me they %become me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons OFFICERS' MESS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's going to be a thick night tonight (and the night before Last Line: Yes, I think you can count on that, old boy - %tonight'll be a thick night Subject(s): Army Life OH FUTURE! THOU SECRETED PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Advancing to thy den Variant Title(s): Poem: 1631; Poem: 165 Subject(s): Future Life OH! THE OAK AND THE ASH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A north country maid up to london had strayed Last Line: Are all growing green in my north country Subject(s): Country Life;homesickness OH, YES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: That's it. %dust and ashes Last Line: Where a somebody, a something, once was Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OHIO VALLEY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Within this vale I feign would stay Last Line: In blissful memory Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio OIL BURN, by ADAM BURHANS Poem Source First Line: When father told me to dump the oil Last Line: Or rivers turning back for bewginnings, %escaping its pull to live again Subject(s): Farm Life; Petroleum; Pollution OKLAHOMA CITY: THE AFTERMATH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I'm so lachrymose I forget I was there Subject(s): Oklahoma City Tragedy (1995); Conduct Of Life; Oklahoma City Bombings (1995) OL' COOKY, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Now, ol' cooky was some ugly Last Line: He lived his life in one old shirt %but he met his maker clean Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OLD ADAM, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The simple horizontal Last Line: In a circumference. Subject(s): Life; Time OLD AIRS: 14, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sandstorms fill turkish passes Last Line: Li mu, the general, is with us no more - %on the frontier men feed jackals and tigers Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; Frontier And Pioneer Life OLD ANNE, by TERESA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: The arm that hadn't healed right would not bend Last Line: She woke, before the pain set in; the young horse, %stunned,on top of her, had just begun to twitch Subject(s): Ranch Life OLD CANADA; OR, GEE BUCK GEE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country's goin' fast to ruin! Last Line: Ain't it a caution?—gee buck gee! Subject(s): Canada; Education; Farm Life; Progress; Canadians; Agriculture; Farmers OLD COYOTE HUNTING MAN, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When mattie gives birth to coydogs Last Line: Night becomes the voice of coyotes %dawn the silence of the grass Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD FARM ALONG NEW HIGHWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A roadside barn stands shivering Last Line: Watches with empty eyes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HANDS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to set and listen Last Line: We done come things the way we did %'cause we just didn't know no better Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OLD HEN SCRATCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then looks, scratched then looks. %my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hens; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self OLD HOME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Once more upon my childhood's home Last Line: Within the buried past! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio OLD HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This old house wears a patina of dignity Last Line: And will again. This old house is a home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas comes easily to this old house Last Line: With all the love its wooden arms can hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise Last Line: Till silence settles over all! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World OLD JOKES APPRECIATE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the long stairs I run Subject(s): Jokes; Conduct Of Life OLD KING ALCHOHOL; AIR: THE SEXTON, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O yes, I am old king alcohol! Last Line: Then millions of souls, I'll gather in! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio OLD LEAVES FROM THE CHINESE EARTH, by SADANAND REGE Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: I am chiang ling Last Line: One shoe is life, the other is death. %I recognized the voice Subject(s): Death; Life; Shoes OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead! Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The OLD MAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His spindly legs and arms still work Last Line: And waits to join him when he comes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD MAN GOES HOME, by KELL ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Under the discount store Last Line: All I can see is what we've lost Subject(s): Ranch Life OLD MAN MCGREW, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Ive never seen old man mcgrew in person Last Line: But it wont be funny if someone find him dead Subject(s): Country Life OLD MAN SUCCUMBING TO RETROSPECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How his mind was always filled with music how Last Line: Even so something more or something a little less. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets OLD MAN WHO IS GONE NOW, by MARGARITA BALDENEGRO REYES Poem Source First Line: The old man - %he is gone now Last Line: Of death with %the new dead Subject(s): Family Life OLD NASSAU, by H. P. PECK Poem Text First Line: Tune every heart and every voice! Last Line: Long life to old nassau! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life OLD ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A drift of baldwins, bright as maple leaves Last Line: For fruit and flower he shall never see? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD PETE, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: First light. The old mule Last Line: It takes forever to get home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD RED HEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In her good brown dress and bright red comb Last Line: Is her last little feathery goodnight word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD RURALITIES; A REGRET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With joy all relics of the past I hail Last Line: More touching is the death-bed than the bier! Subject(s): Country Life OLD SCHOOL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: When in school, on the jade-green campus Last Line: The river's cliff grew dark in september mist Subject(s): Family Life - China OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students OLD SONG FROM MY YOUTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until I die.' well, perhaps not Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Youth OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is many a simple song one hears Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs OLD TOPPER, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: My mom's mom used Last Line: Years. I'd become a %stranger like everyone else Subject(s): Children; Family Life OLD VINEYARD, by LEONARDO SINISGALLI Poem Source First Line: I've been sitting on the ground Last Line: I savor the air coming from the heart of the trees Subject(s): Farm Life; Vines And Vineyards OLD VOGAL, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Told me I was lucky Last Line: But 'lucky' 'cuz I'm a girl Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have jest about decided Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks OLD WOMAN'S NIGHT SONG, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Now I am old %my bones go rattling through me Last Line: Circling, %under the bone-white moon Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life OLD-FASHIONED LADIES (TO THE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-AUNT, MADAME K-), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hall, a stair with wide Last Line: That quaintness, calm and fine, god knows! Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Maturity; Relationships; Relatives OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers OLDEN LOVE-MAKING, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time of yore when shepherds dwelt Last Line: I will go learn the country life %or leave the lover's state Variant Title(s): In Time Of Yor Subject(s): Country Life OLDER SISTER, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Forever, she rides Last Line: Than the recipe required Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens OMA WISE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'll tell you a sad story Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life OMAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old omar, jolly sceptic, it may be Last Line: Must own you have almost persuaded me. Subject(s): Life OMAR KHAYYAM, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in omar till the thoughts that burned Last Line: That casts its light stain on the asian page. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Liberty OMI ROSE, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: Her face was such a warm doll Last Line: Our baby - omi! Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life ON A 'FARMER'S ARM'S' PITCHER, LIVERPOOL WARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let mighty and great Last Line: Here's to god bless the plow, %long life and content to the farmer Subject(s): Farm Life ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A COLD WINTER'S EVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life ON A COUNTRY ROAD BY SOME GRAZING LAND, by GERALD WALLERSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: And I was thinking of bulls and lawyers, %lawyers and bulls Subject(s): Country Life; Law And Lawyers; Nature ON A COUNTRY ROAD IN MACEDONIA, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: We are walking in september heat Last Line: Compared to these features of light? Subject(s): Country Life ON A COUNTRY ROAD, A YOUNG MAN FALLS FORWARD AND GREETS REALITY, by ANDY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Nearby, a heron sits Last Line: These broken branches %of metaphor Subject(s): Country Life; Mankind; Reality; Walking ON A DEAF HOUSEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man Subject(s): Deafness;housekeeping;life ON A MANHATTAN ROOF, by ANNETTE WILCOX Poem Text First Line: I've been on a sea voyage Last Line: Of car and voice and feet. Subject(s): Cities; Life; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: You can imagine Last Line: Alive in your hand Subject(s): Life; Night ON A NIGHT OF RAIN, by BERYLE WILLAMS Poem Source First Line: Leaning down %to kiss the boy goodnight Subject(s): Family Life 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 PICTURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a forlorn soul waiting by the styx Last Line: He stands at fault for joy, she whispering 'ay.' Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Rivers; Soul; Dead, The; Optimism ON A PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR IN PRADO, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen / a portrait of this mary Last Line: Of tudor blood turned acid in the veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ON AN UNSOCIABLE FAMILY, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what a strange parcel of creatures are we Last Line: For to please ourselves, truly, is more than we can. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Family Life; Indifference; Relatives ON AND ON, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By long leagues of wood and meadow Last Line: And behind me like regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret ON BATS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: By chance I visited the little zoo of d. H. Lawrence Last Line: A moth from a spider, but care little for the bats Subject(s): Family Life - China ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before this, when I was stationed at hsun-yang Last Line: And am pleased with anyone who is even remotely human! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON BUYING A MAINE FARM, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house should be white Last Line: To swing overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Maine (state); Agriculture; Farmers ON CITY STREETS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: There have been times when on a city street Last Line: We fear to change the old, established way. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ON DWELLING, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courtesies of good morning and good evening Subject(s): Country Life ON DWELLING, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courtesies of good morning and good evening Last Line: Like trees they murmur or like blackbirds sing %courtesies of good-morning and good-evening Subject(s): Country Life ON ETERNITY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Beneath a radiance rented from the stars Last Line: Love the defeated %those eyes gazing into time Subject(s): Future Life ON FINDING AN ARROWHEAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who left this mark upon my measured field? Last Line: And wonder if I really own this land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON FRIENDSHIP, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And a youth said, speak to us of friendship Last Line: Its morning and is refreshed Subject(s): Life Change Events ON GETTING AN EDUCATION, by PHILIP RAISOR Poem Source First Line: Every muncie %provides the same texts Last Line: I'm coming home %to barbecue a fatted calf, %clean out my father's attic Subject(s): Auctions; Education; Life ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Go back beyond the electric light Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English ON HIS LIFE, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To hope, to fear, remember, suffer pain Last Line: Nothing I know of either but its rage Subject(s): Life ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run Last Line: On kiley's run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares ON LONG BOAT KEY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This key rides water like a narrow raft Last Line: Others will follow whose days have just begun Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON LOOKING AT A CONTOUR MAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under the light the map begins to live Last Line: To childhood country with my youth restored Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON LOOKING AT A COPY FO ALICE MEYNELL'S POEMS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this greying page you wrote Last Line: The living have so much to do Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Meynell, Alice (1847-1922); Books; Life ON MAN'S LIFE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No human thing in constancy will stay Last Line: This though's of worth, record it in thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Life ON MEETING FATHER GOOSE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, / as webbed as moss, Last Line: "you gol dern fool!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers ON MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Ten thousand miles in mist and rain, fifty Last Line: Roses, roses to fade upon your stone Subject(s): Family Life - China ON MIDDLETON EDGE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If this life-saving rock should fail Last Line: Further than any wandering star has gone Subject(s): Life Change Events ON MOUNT TIMPANOGOS, 1935, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lodged against the mountain's collarbone Subject(s): Country Life ON MY APPLICATIONS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: On my applications I can %put Last Line: If you take her as she %is Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I, my dear, was born today Last Line: Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.' Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Life; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Dead, The ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON PARTING WITH A FRIEND, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Can I forget thee!? No, while mem'ry lasts Last Line: "unite, ne'er more (rapt thought) to say ""farewell!" Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love ON PHILLIS' SICKNESS, FR. PHILLIS, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How languisheth the primrose of love's garden? Subject(s): Country Life; Sickness ON PLOUGHING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: The slow shuttle of husbandry Last Line: Sweating for daily bread. Subject(s): Family Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Relatives ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odours of spring, my sense ye charm Last Line: Who asks your lingering thoughts. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON RECORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not bring a baby face Last Line: Life's scars, for god himself to see! Subject(s): Death; Faces; God; Life; Scars; Dead, The ON ROBERT RIDDELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To riddell, much-lamented man Last Line: This ivied cot revere. Subject(s): Death; Life; Money ON ROSANIA'S APOSTASY, AND LUCASIA'S FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul of friendship, whither art thou fled? Last Line: Since 'twas at first from thy orinda sent. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Future Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON SECOND THOUGHT, by MEG KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: I was wrong about happiness. I thought Last Line: You look so much like your father Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Happiness; Memory ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daft gowk, in macaroni dress, / are ye come here to shew your face Last Line: That dip their spoons in ither's kail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fools; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Idiots ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON STUDYING SEATED MAN WITH A HARP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: All the singing before homer is lost Last Line: I try to hear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON SUICIDE, by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Poem Source First Line: It is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which Last Line: Every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person Subject(s): Life Change Events; Suicide ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G. Poem Text First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE BORDER, FIRST SERIES: 4, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We recruits have our commanders to send off Last Line: Sad as it is, we and they are parted now, %no longer to share the same troubles and pain Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life ON THE BORDER, FIRST SERIES: 6, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you draw a bow, draw a strong one Last Line: Just so you manage to keep invaders out - %seeing how many you can slaughter - that's not the point! Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The greatest griefs shall find themselves Last Line: Round small bodies. Taking up improper room, %where so much withering is, and so much bloom Subject(s): Life Change Events ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who could view the book of destiny Last Line: Imagine all in one, and think that one is he. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF AMYNTAS; A PASTORAL ELEGY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn Last Line: For like amyntas none is left below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and know—whoe'er thou art—the prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Over the river our mother has gone Last Line: Where mothers watching, and waiting for us Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ON THE DEATH OF RHODERIC DHU GAMBRELL EDITOR OF SWORD AND SHIELD OF JA, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Now drape in black the 'sword and shield' Last Line: Till prohibition's won Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the most do with officious heat Last Line: And after all her wrongs, may do her right. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia; Life; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF WILLIE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Put away that empty cradle! Last Line: We'll live upon that blissful shore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ON THE DUNES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there there is any life when death is over Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DUNES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is any life when death is over Last Line: Stand on the sun-swept dunes and call my name. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE EVE OF MY THIRTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I do not think I'll dye Last Line: Of erections that will last Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Life ON THE EVE OF OUR ANNIVERSARY, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: Spring approaches blowing east Subject(s): Family Life ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There was dai puw. He was no good Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was dai puw. He was no good Last Line: By which they read in god's dark book %the shrill sentence: god is love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life ON THE FRONTIER, by NARA SINGDE Poem Source First Line: The rivers and hills have no single master Last Line: Evening sunshine deep in the mountains, %deep in autumn, the rain Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Frontier And Pioneer Life ON THE LIFE OF MAN, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, and man forgot. Variant Title(s): The Life Of Man Subject(s): Life ON THE LIFE OF MAN, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is our life? A play of passion Last Line: Only we die in earnest, that's no jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Life's Tragi-comedy;what Is Our Life;all The World's A Stage Subject(s): Life ON THE LINE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When you've been through the wringer Last Line: Slipping off. The line gives way, tattersalls %and teddies swinging wild to the wind. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CAMILLA WALLOP & THE REV. WAKE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Camilla, good humoured, & merry, & small Last Line: Is now happy to jump at a wake Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar! Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who in impious times untainted stood Last Line: To earth were meant for ornaments to heav'n. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Monuments; Paulet, John. 5th Marquis Of Winchester; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Pawlett, John; Poulett, John; Powlett, John ON THE NIGHT EXPRESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Click-clack, click-clack, shouts the trampled track Last Line: But the cities their scenery. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE; CUT AND SOLEN, MAY, 1867, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By none could her charms be surpass'd in their day Last Line: Her charms are cut out, and her canvass is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Portraits; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE ROAD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For road-mates and companions he chose twelve Last Line: That they might see life's whole, and share with him %the joyousness of god's companionship Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry ON THE ROAD, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: The road is swung out across the great plain Last Line: Over long, snowy roads—to some sunrise! Subject(s): Aging; Life ON THE ROAD TO YAMASHIRO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: When I see you %on foot, toiling on Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life ON THE SALE OF MY FARM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well-away and be it so Last Line: Seeking ache of memory here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE SEASHORE, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the seashore of endless worlds children meet Last Line: The sea-beach...On the seashore of endless worlds is the %great meeting of children Subject(s): Life Change Events ON THE STRAND, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie on the sand and thro' thy fingers drain Last Line: To fall and mingle on the eternal strand. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Seashore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE THRESHOLD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When they leave, as they will, Last Line: Your long night on the threshold %and welcome you home. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ON THIS PATH OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION, by GLEN MAZIS Poem Source First Line: Lope, lope, I move through the skies Last Line: These steps have broken %the earth's gravity Subject(s): Quiet Life ON THUNDER HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The folks who live on thunder hill Last Line: Lightning can't strike the same place twice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism ON WINTER NIGHTS, by NIJOLE MILIAUSKAITE Poem Source First Line: On winter nights, when my grandmother Last Line: At my eyes, filled with sleep Subject(s): Family Life ON WOOLACOMBE BEACH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Unto his depths the ocean stirs Subject(s): Country Life ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On, on, ye jocund twain! Continue on the same! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ONCE & EVER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sure love is nothing less than love Last Line: Learn what thy love to love must be. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONCE WE WERE FARMERS, by ELSA REDIVA E'DER Poem Source Last Line: We sing with eloquent hunger Subject(s): Farm Life ONE DAY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone knows that the trees will go one day Variant Title(s): This Day Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ONE FOR THE SHEEP, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: I met a woman in elko Last Line: Her sheep camp %silent Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sheep ONE MINUS ONE MINUS ONE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a first map of territory Last Line: In this loneliness Subject(s): Family Life; Solitude; Relatives ONE MORE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile and a kiss he went away Last Line: The father whom they sacrificed. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Smiles; Dead, The ONE NIGHT IN BALTHAZAR, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The hotel bar downstairs Last Line: As if he was the one Subject(s): City & Town Life ONE NIGHT MARLYCE JACOBSEN EXPRESSED HERSELF, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Was the eve of her enlistment in the u.S. Army %out at the holy rosary church Last Line: Glow from the golden moon above it in the west Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Prairies; Women ONE OF MANY (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a man - I know him still Last Line: There be more like him in the world. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ONE OF THE BOYS, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Wanting to lie down on a bed Subject(s): Family Life ONE OF THE DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paler, not quite so fair as in her life Last Line: Friends, she but slumbers, wherefore do ye weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ecce autem duro fumans sub vomere taurus Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ONE SONG, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Is there no song that I may sing? Subject(s): Farm Life ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It is of you I dream through drowsy winter nights Last Line: Come streaking from its depths to fin your nose at me! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONE THERE WAS, by STELLA FISHER BURGESS Poem Source First Line: One there was who, passing by Last Line: Meaning to leavening dough he lent; %he made, of bread, a sacrament Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry ONE THING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one Last Line: A harvest of barren regrets. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ambition; Life ONE THING OR ANOTHER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Behind the sky: another, bluer Last Line: Scars, musical in water Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ONE THING, TOO MUCH, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: We all love one thing too much Last Line: Is like a burning woman %calling for more wood Subject(s): Family Life; History ONE TOKEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The power was given at birth to me Last Line: Another life on the other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONE VERSION OF EVENTS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life Choices ONE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He laughs and claps those dimpled hands Last Line: Came here to stay! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONION, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The onion, now that's something else Last Line: Not for us such idiotic %onionoid perfections Subject(s): Farm Life ONLY A MEMORY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Only a memory - and yet 'tis sweeter Last Line: For heaven will last, and god is love %-eternally Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ONLY A SPRIG OF IVY!, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Twas only a sprig - a sprig of ground ivy! Last Line: Which we in youth are so anxious to know Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ONLY IN DEATH, by MAUDE CHATEAUNEUF OVERTON Poem Text First Line: He had not much in life Last Line: And from the organ rolled sweet, solemn strains. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ONLY IN THE BLUE MORNING GLORY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Deep down in the blue morning glory Last Line: Where fancy brings her back to me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ONLY LOOKING PASSIONATELY...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: With no prejudging a return Subject(s): Life; Passion ONLY ONE LIFE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not for man to trifle: life is brief Last Line: Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Variant Title(s): Life Subject(s): Life ONLY RULE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How could this happen again? Last Line: This secret baptism of pain? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ONLY THE SOFT WIND, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: Life gazes long at me Last Line: Through the swinging treetops. Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Life; Wind OONTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes him to perspire? Last Line: But 'e gets into the drinkin'-casks, and then o' course we dies. Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics OPEN AIR, by T. FARQUHARSON Poem Text First Line: With the open air and a leisurely life Last Line: He's never a thought for money. Subject(s): Country Life OPEN HOUSE, by H. L. WHITCHER Poem Source First Line: My door stands wide in the sun and rain Subject(s): Farm Life OPEN ROADS, by DAVID DONNELL Poem Source First Line: My stepfather was a hobo because he didn't know any better Subject(s): Family Life OPENING IN THE LARGEST CITY, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: The lovers look perfectly natural Last Line: And the attraction of irresistible winds Subject(s): Life; Paintings And Painters OPERATION MEMORY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Subject(s): Soldiers; Memory; Conduct Of Life OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who binds to himself a joy Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life OPPORTUNITY, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: It was a cold night, I was sleeping Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life OPPORTUNITY, by JOHN JAMES INGALLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human destinies am I! Last Line: I answer not, and I return no more. Subject(s): Life; Opportunity OPTIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Be brave, faint heart Last Line: Be brave, faint heart! Subject(s): Courage; Hearts; Hope; Life; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OPTIMUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a deep and subtle snare Last Line: Because it is another's too. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Life; Soul ORACLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now I am the old one, dispensing wisdom Last Line: I forget ... I forget ... I try to forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ORANGE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At lunchtime I bought a huge orange Last Line: I love you. I'm glad I exist Subject(s): Life Change Events ORCHARD, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: We go into it at night Last Line: Tonight so many of them fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Orchards; Ranch Life; Women - Writers ORCHARD IN BLOOM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: These seven hundred trees Last Line: The vernal believer %need never decipher Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ORCHARD KEEPER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen on snow for two days behind the keilen farmhouse Last Line: And the orchard keeper, where is he? Variant Title(s): Snow Falling On Sno Subject(s): Farm Life ORDEAL BY FAMILY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been out where the blues begin Last Line: And now that I'm away again, %I miss them very much Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life ORDER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The gods are mortal Last Line: The end without end Subject(s): Eyes; Immortality; Life; Light ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Know who you are Last Line: The sign will be a soft stirring of wings, %a gold shimmer of air Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life ORDINARY MORNING, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Twas just an ordinary mornin' Last Line: And the calf is doin' fine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look back upon my life nigh spent Last Line: A fool I bring thee to be made a child. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Life; Prayer; Redemption; Clemency ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: REST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When round the earth the father's hands Last Line: My deep, still, resting sea. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Rest; Sleep; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGANON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intact as concave %for cause as varnished Last Line: To speak it was there %a single old Subject(s): Life ORIENTALE: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spoke to thee Last Line: O thou, is love not death? Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of ORIGIN OF MUSIC, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When I was a medical student Last Line: And play them like castanets Subject(s): Life Change Events; Medicine; Physicians ORIGINS: MY LIFE IN MOVING PICTURES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I'm a leaf I'm a leaf if you're a Last Line: Of the birds? Subject(s): Life; Single Parents; Parents Without Partners ORNAMENT, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: The children chased tumbleweeds Last Line: Through sage across the white flats Subject(s): Farm Life ORPHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Milk - white with nacre hooves and horn Last Line: To see the last white unicorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OSWALD, THE MINNESINGER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oswald von wolkenstein! / last of a gifted line Last Line: God rest his soul! Subject(s): Death; Legends; Life; Love; Dead, The OTHER, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: Why utter the names of gods or stars Last Line: He dies with the purest half of your death Subject(s): Life OTHER VOICES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are things we do not tell Last Line: And I hear them %and I don't %and even police can't stop earth telling Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers OTHERING, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Once, I tried to imagine it Last Line: If other, so little then to make of life, of this, of life, this - this Subject(s): Life OTHERWISE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got out of bed Last Line: It will be otherwise Subject(s): Family Life; Mortality; Relatives OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair; Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OUR BE'THPLEACE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dear's the door a latch do shut Last Line: Our own vorelivers dead an' gone. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Memory; Relatives OUR BICYCLES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother being the eldest had Subject(s): Bicycles; Family Life; Cycling; Relatives OUR BICYCLES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother being the eldest had Last Line: Me I would cry) leaving me far be- %hind wailing and eating their dust Subject(s): Bicycles; Family Life OUR CAT, by JAMES BERRY Poem Source First Line: She touches with her paw Last Line: Fantastic family friend - firefur! Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Brothers And Sisters; Family Life OUR CHAINS WEAR US DOWN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Paralyzed, we stagger around Last Line: Like the pain, the cold and the ghost, %and that loud howl at midnight %in a city with no wolves Subject(s): Human Rights; Life OUR CITY, by FLOSSIE FAITH SAWINGS Poem Text First Line: I looked upon our city and her people Last Line: Despair grow deeper on our city's face. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life OUR DAILY PATHS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Last Line: By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness OUR DEAD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is our own: we hold our pleasures Last Line: And, to save our treasures, claims them all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Destiny OUR DRAGON, by CHELSEA RATHBURN Poem Source First Line: At summer reunions, great aunt nettie Last Line: Those apples will sink in your gut like stone.' Subject(s): Family Life; Reunions; Summer OUR DUST, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am your ancestor. You know next-to-nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The OUR DUST, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am your ancestor. You know next-to-nothing Last Line: In the black car. I have seen the retreat %of the black car Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Life OUR EYES: A FAMILY GALLERY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the room my life's recorded in Last Line: Where I have spent hundreds of hours, like this one, %mixingthe fixatives of an unfixed life Subject(s): Family Life OUR FAMILY TREE; ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER CECILIA, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our family tree is in the sear Last Line: Our names shine bright as day. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Sisters; Dead, The; Relatives OUR FATHER AT 80 HAS MOVED TO THE COUNTRY WHERE, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: He's no longer poisoned Last Line: (squirrels steeping in wine) Subject(s): Aging; Country Life; Fathers OUR FIVE SENSES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aristotle threw his chops into a pomegranate Last Line: Three of mine and others boiling up %under a boy's sloppy hunger Subject(s): Life OUR FLAG, SELS., by T. H. UNDERWOOD Poem Source First Line: I heard the furious stamping of a heel Last Line: As royally as lies the noblest clay Subject(s): American Civil War; Life; Pain; Slavery; U.s. - History OUR GEM WREATH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard ye the sounds of joyous glee Last Line: In a union fond and true. Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight OUR GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our god is the god of the infinite Last Line: The god of eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Holy Spirit; Theology OUR GRIEF WILL PASS WHEN SHADOWS THROW, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OUR HERITAGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is our due and this our heritage Last Line: We cannot spare one bird song from the field! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR KIND OF MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind of a man for you and me! Last Line: Is the kind of a man for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Sin; Belief; Creed OUR LADY OF KNOCK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They say our lady shone there once Last Line: Dreams travel back to where I can't Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland OUR LIFE IN THIS WORLD, by SAMI MANSEI Poem Source Last Line: Leaving not a trace behind Subject(s): Life OUR LITTLE COWGIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thar she goes a-lopin,' stranger" Subject(s): Cowboys;girls;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OUR LITTLE GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart knew naught of sorrow Last Line: "our little girl again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Life; Dead, The OUR LIVES AS ANGELS, by SCOTT BEAL Poem Source First Line: We expected at least halos and we scrutinized Last Line: On the murmur below in which gradually we fancied we heard voices knotted pleas for help Subject(s): Angels; Future Life OUR LIVES AS HIGHLIGHTS ON TV, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fancy down the stairs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature OUR LIVES SHOULD WIDEN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we ever weary of this life? Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 8; Sonne Subject(s): Life OUR LOSSES HAVE BEEN SLIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one will miss him very much Last Line: No one will miss him very much Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR MASTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal love, forever full Last Line: And its obedience praise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology OUR MOTHER'S MOTHER, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: She had no patience Last Line: Into a sliver of dust Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR MURDERED PRESIDENT, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Our noble chief - our president Last Line: Concealed within our land Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio OUR NEW HORSE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boys had come back from the races Last Line: With fifty pounds loss on the deal. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing OUR OLD VERMONT LUMBER WAGON, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thing that often 'pears to me Last Line: Our old blue lumber wagon. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Woodsmen OUR RANGE, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: The beauty, the beauty, my pen can't quite share Last Line: But we both belong on this %our range Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OUR ROMANCE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is narrow which leads to that house Last Line: And saved the parents, being children. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Parents; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OUR UNWISE PURPOSES ARE WISELY CROSSED, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OUT A-NUTTEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week, when we'd a-haul'd the crops Last Line: Vrom copse a-nuttèn. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Nuts & Nutting; Seasons; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers OUT HERE, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: When rogers intersects eubanks Last Line: Of skin unpronounceable on the macadam Subject(s): Country Life OUT OF AN OLD BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened, read: lo, like a sun Last Line: Beauty is dateless, life is one. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: In the weeks of your going I tug at time Last Line: Where another universe waits %at the white-hot core. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love OUT OF FOCUS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sense in which living itself seems a form of Last Line: Already you persist in walking about attending to our affairs Subject(s): Life; Futility OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains OUT OF RANGE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't keep the books you'd packed for long Last Line: Beneath the vague and barren shade outside Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War OUT OF THE FIREFLY NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Soft and dark after the warm rain Last Line: I grew all night like the new corn in the hills Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUT OF THE SOUTH, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Back home on the sly, as usual Last Line: And joined in the morning traffic, %headed somewhere else Subject(s): Family Life; Homecoming; Southern States OUT THE PASSES, by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: Bright moon of the days of qin Last Line: He would not let the turkish horses %made the crossing of shadow mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life OUT TO GRASS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The young lambs bound %as to the tabor's sound,' Last Line: Worthy of what they eat Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUT TO THE FRONTIER: 1, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cheerless, they leave their hometowns Last Line: A true man's concerned with all the world - %how can I refuse to hold fast in hardship? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Soldiers OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Last Line: That's where the west begins. Subject(s): Cowboys; Patriotism; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States OUTDOOR SON OF GOD, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: My master was a man who knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry OUTIDANA: A DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day is a thought, a fear is to-morrow Last Line: Then we weep for ourselves, and wish thee goodbye. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The OUTLINE AND ETERNITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Death link. Pisces with cancer Last Line: Honey. And not one drop flows away Subject(s): Future Life; Love OUTLINES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, frame me in thy love, as I Last Line: The many shape the one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life OUTREMER, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people wish to leave this earth Last Line: I know, because he walked at my side for a short time Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OUTRIDERS AT THE END OF THE TRAIL, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They contemplate their town-boot toes Last Line: You'll hear no keening to the vaulted skies, %but the good hands know when a good hand dies Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OVER AND OVER TUNE, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Text First Line: You could grow into it, / that sense of living like a dog Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OVER THE RANGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bush maiden, wondering eyed Last Line: To the beautiful country over the range. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Home; Life; Summer; Dead, The OVERTONES, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will always be nuisance Last Line: Or a statue covered in pigeon shit Subject(s): Life OVID'S LISTS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valle sub umbrosa locus est, adspurgine multa Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Country Life OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the mismated pairs ever created Last Line: Is apt to be sauce for the propaganda. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Art & Artists; Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904); Life; Quarrels; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936); Arguments; Disagreements OX-CART MAN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In october of the year, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers OXFORDSHIRE GUY FAWKES' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "remember, remember / the fifth of november" Last Line: And the worse for you Subject(s): "country Life;gunpowder Plot;oxfordshire, England;" Guy Fawkes PA, by LEO DANGEL Poem Source First Line: When we got home, there was our old man Subject(s): Family Life PA MCCABE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell these young spratasses around here Last Line: I had a small one once, borrowed / off marshal Subject(s): Life PACKET OF SEED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This wrinkled seed I hold in my hand Last Line: By the soundless shout of the bursting seed! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PACKING THE WEIGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's easy when you breeze along Last Line: Can you still pack weight and win? Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PADDING IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasing it out like niggers on a two and a / tanner sub Last Line: The journey to ballachulish, for this is the song of it. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Serfs; Journeys; Trips PADDLER AND DABBLER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You were the white swan Last Line: By trumpeting your song Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PAGE 72, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister arty martyr Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PAHA SAPA, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Four old kings stare Last Line: Marine worlds and %reptile gardens Subject(s): Ranch Life PAIN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We bury our pain in a secret crypt Last Line: So that we do not speak or whisper Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PAINT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Until she saw the horse, stuffed and saddled Last Line: Finds him still tied to her bedpost Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PAINTED WINDOWS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I lived in a house Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PAINTER IN THE LION CAGE, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: On the ground are my sketches of the contours Last Line: Yet never will be saved from the majestic brute %I drew myself Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life PAIR OF SHOES BY THE FIELD'S EDGE, by WANG XIAONI Poem Source First Line: By the field's edge Last Line: Bare feet trudging on earth, the color of antinque bronze Subject(s): Farm Life PAJAMA QUOTIENT, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coinage of the not-yet-wholly- Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories PALESTINE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn Last Line: "who died, who lives, triumphant o'er the grave!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Messiah; Palestine; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PALLAS GOES IN GRAY, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I knew Last Line: I can never be glad. Subject(s): Life PALM ENDING IN WINTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something simple, something clear Subject(s): Winter; Family Life; Relatives PALOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaff hovers like pollen Last Line: Spattered with stars. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PAN'S ANNIVERSARY, SELS., by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PAN'S HOLIDAY, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woodmen, shepherds, come away Variant Title(s): Holiday In Arcadi Subject(s): Country Life PANEM ET CIRCENSES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crumbs of bitter comfort fall Last Line: "we were revenged before we died!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Life; Pleasure; Sun; Dead, The PANHANDLE, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: Where the short grass struggles daily Last Line: Don't stop except for food or gas, %so, it's not a total loss Subject(s): Ranch Life; Texas PANORAMA, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Street sights! Street sounds! The wonder of it grows Last Line: And flamed from every star! Subject(s): City & Town Life PANORAMA A SMILE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A rippling lake - a woody shore Last Line: The waves would still, the storm would end Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio PANTHERS OF WORRY, by JOHN ROY OCTAVIUS GERY Poem Source First Line: Panthers outside my window Last Line: Of regret I've never quite sighed %of things undone things unsaid Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life PANTOUM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives avoided tragedy Last Line: And there is no plot in that; it is devoid of poetry Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Life; Recessions PAPER FISHES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paper carp Subject(s): Fish; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PAPER MATCHES, by PAULETTE JILES Poem Source First Line: My aunts washed dishes while the uncles Last Line: Wr come bearing supper %our heads on fire Subject(s): Family Life; Sexism PARABLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read how quixote in his random ride Subject(s): Life Choices; Don Quixote PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice. Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 6. YES, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burden and blessing-- Last Line: In this radiant wilderness. Subject(s): Blessings; Heaven; Life; Paradise PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air. Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips PARTA QUIES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night; ensured release Last Line: It is not your concern: %sleep on, sleep sound Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Alta Quie Subject(s): Life Change Events PARTINGS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: With house and home went title to the tree Last Line: That went into the growing of the tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PARTS OF A FLOWER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: A small village Last Line: The tiny pinup sun Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PARTY LINE, by JEAN STANSBURY Poem Source First Line: Hello, central! Four-o-four Subject(s): Farm Life PASCAL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lovedst life, but not to brand it thine (o rich in all forborne felicities Last Line: More blessedly, that men can name them not. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Dead, The PASSEL O' PUPS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Bonny bairnies, black an' fine Last Line: Drifts the snaw. Drink yir fill, %glazie beasties, souk an' slepe Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PASSING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: They called it Last Line: Or is %it running up my spine? Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: To forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: I want to tell him %that I forgive him, that I want him %to forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life PASSING BY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day is dying! Day is dying Last Line: Day is dying—day is dead! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The PASSING STRANGE, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth to rest or range Last Line: Our joy, a rampart to the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events PASSING THE MANTLE, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: How small he was Last Line: And look to my son %for his approval Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PASSING THE SHOP AFTER SCHOOL, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the shop after school, he would look up at the sign Subject(s): Jobs; Money; Life Change Events; Food & Eating PASSION DRINKER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: When he was young, he broke horses Last Line: The passion drinker thinks he's seen it all, %but the dead say only the earth endures Subject(s): Cowboys; Family Life; History PASSOVER HAMBURGERS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The hamgurgers Last Line: Bitter herbs Subject(s): Contentment; Family Life; Fathers; Food And Eating; Love; Passover PAST, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I have all these parts stuffed in me Last Line: Of my new %day Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness PAST LIVES, by SCOTT BEAL Poem Source First Line: We're all recycled Last Line: The same blind, circular route Subject(s): Death; Life PAST SORROWS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As tangled driftwood barring up a stream Last Line: Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Islands; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery PASTORAL, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The ornament of frost and jasmine is already crumbling. Before Last Line: Only stutter. No symmetry, no design: an ancient seal cracks imperceptibly Subject(s): Family Life PASTORAL, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sometimes when a peasant moves with the plough and the oxen Last Line: From the backs of the animals on to the fields Subject(s): Farm Life PASTORAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say it was an absence of cows Last Line: On which we put everything down? %who'll off to market, singing cows, cows? Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Farm Life PASTORAL REVEILLE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds, rise and shake off sleep Variant Title(s): The Priest's Morning Son Subject(s): Country Life PASTORAL: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon upland slope which hides the sun Last Line: Men's thoughts must borrow rather than bestow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Persephone; Agriculture; Farmers; Proserpine; Proserpina PATCHWORK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some rainbow shreds of hope and joy Last Line: Such is the patchwork we call life. Subject(s): Life PATH, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: There is so little to go on: a pale Last Line: Moving toward you, blind, in another life Subject(s): Life PATH MISTAKEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In a leafless wood I lose my way Last Line: But credit me with this tract of trees Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PATIENT IS NEAR, by BILL RECTOR Poem Source First Line: Death. I change shape constnatly. I am all Last Line: It I almost burst %out laughing - attila the son Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Sickness PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening / the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fatigue PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening %the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Last Line: It is lovely to live in the dark friendliness %of covered entrance way, arbor, and wellhead Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see a neat and tidy world Last Line: With choice phased out, and love outlawed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live? Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self. Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The PATTERNS, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Text First Line: Lace on the windowpane Last Line: Life has for us all. Subject(s): Life PAUL AMONG THE CORINTHIANS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: City where mighty eros reigns Last Line: To placate the offended god of love Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors PEA BRUSH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down alone sunday after church Last Line: And since it was coming up had to come. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PEACE IN A PALACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were weeping in the night,' said the emperor Last Line: "the little eyeless faces of the drowned." Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Life; Peace; Tears PEACE NOT PERMANENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great cities seldome rest; if there be none Last Line: T'invade from far: they'l finde worse foes at home. Subject(s): Cities; Peace; Urban Life PEACE OF THE RUNNING WATER TO YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the love and the care of us all to you Subject(s): Life Change Events PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes Last Line: And life shall never die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The PEACHES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches PEANUT BUTTER, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am always hungry Subject(s): Peanut Butter; Sex; Appetite; Conduct Of Life PEARL BRYAN (5), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, pearl, let's take a ramble Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life PEARS, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: Dipping each nail Last Line: Of their own stems Subject(s): Farm Life PEBBLES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whined, o why into this wide and / lonely Last Line: Of voices in a wood of april buds. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PEDDLER AND HIS WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day the sun was rising high Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Frontier And Pioneer Life; Murder PEDESTRIAN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tottering and elastic, middle name of groan, Subject(s): City & Town Life PEELING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was no song for that brown chore Last Line: It seemed a privilege for a while Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PEELING POTATOES, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: I do not think that I Last Line: My clothes line is a perfect %gospel of deceit Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Potatoes PEG-LEG PIG, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A farmer's daughter keeps a hog %who sports a wooden leg Last Line: Mister, you eat a pig this good %one leg at a time' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PELTERS OF PYRAMIDS, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shoal of idlers, from a merchant craft Last Line: Whereon no trace of mortal dust was seen. Subject(s): Life; Pyramids PENANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go back to singapore Last Line: I want to go back to penang! I want to go back! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Peace; Singapore; Sorrow; Sadness PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George says he chooses poverty. That's rash Last Line: I've an experienced aversion to it Subject(s): Poverty; Life Choices PENELOPE'S WEB: BARMENISSA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stately state that wise men count their good Last Line: With patience lows thee quiet and delight. Variant Title(s): Content Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; Happiness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight PENETRATION, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Thou never said thou loved me yet Last Line: Awhile my lips thou pressed Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio PENN CALVIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Search high and low, search up and down Last Line: And glad the world is fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Calvinists; Life PENSIVE MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still watching near the swards of eden Last Line: And grasp all human interest and pain. Subject(s): Eden; Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness PEOPLE, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: Some people talk and talk Last Line: And music fills the sky Subject(s): Life Change Events PEOPLE FROM THE VALLEY, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The farmers come, come Last Line: Who can write their own obituaries %in the lines of their hard hands Subject(s): Farm Life; Ranch Life PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PEOPLE WHO MUST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PEOPLE WILL TALK, by JUNE BRANDER GILMAN Poem Source First Line: You may get thru the world, but it'll be very slow Last Line: But don't think to stop them, it's not any use, %for people will talk! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PERFECT WIFE, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: George and I been thinkin' Last Line: This joke was once my life Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PERFECTION WASTED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And another regrettable thing about death Last Line: Imitators and descendants aren't the same Subject(s): Life PERFECTION WASTED, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And another regrettable thing about death Last Line: Who will do it again? That's it; no one; %imitators and descendants aren't the same Subject(s): Life PERHAPS, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: He spoke of sound-thin waves of sound Last Line: The men of galilee! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Radio; Sound PERIANDER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How died melissa none dares shape in words Last Line: How black his gods behind their marble screens. Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Tyranny & Tyrants; Relatives PERIL OF THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: As I cannot eat, I remount to the poop Last Line: This time I shall not drink the bitter waters Subject(s): Life; Sailors And Sailing PERIOD, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I stop. There is a period to my walk Last Line: Red period upon the crowded sky Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature PERISHABLES, by R. WATSON Poem Source First Line: They shall be thanked for their softness Last Line: And which have been cleaned and returned to brightness Subject(s): Family Life; Life; Nature PERMEABLE MEMBRANE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We move through life laid bare Last Line: A peculiar sort of oneness Subject(s): Birth; Life PERSEPHONE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You may think this is a story Last Line: She left abandoned all below Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PERSEVERANCE, by LEONARDO DA VINCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In facile natures fancies grow quickly Last Line: The perfect fruit of all we are would see. Subject(s): Life; Perseverance PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists PERSONAL, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dont take it personal, they said Last Line: To take it personal too Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PERSPECTIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I had lost myself in woe Last Line: My grief was an important thing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PERSPECTIVE, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: That tiny figure in the distance, an eighth of an inch tall Last Line: And free, and I've yet to speak to him of my dismay Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Walking PERSPIRATION, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poor dear / looked dreadfully bored Last Line: Cambric kerchief? Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Perspiration; Soul; Sweat PESSIMISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bright-faced maiden, bright-souled maiden" Last Line: Goethe says -- and so say I Subject(s): Life;pessimism PESSIMIST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pessimist sits at his deak Last Line: If only my pen doesn't run out of ink Subject(s): Life; Pessimism PETALS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a stream Last Line: The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays. Subject(s): Life PETRARCHAN, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs locked in the shed now Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The PHAETON'S FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by PENELOPE DEAKIN Poem Source First Line: If I were a mother Subject(s): Family Life PHANERON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever roams the air is traveling Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PHANTOM OF LIFE, by VIOLET MCKAY BALL Poem Text First Line: Uncertain, subtle, shrouded close in clouds of mystery Last Line: Until the vision, mirrored clear, beholds eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PHILIP AND MILDRED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lingering fade the rays of daylight, and the listening air is chilly Last Line: For on earth so much is needed, but in heaven love is all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Peace; Nightmares PHILLIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Phillis, a herd-maid dainty Subject(s): Country Life PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S SECOND ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was frosty winter-season Last Line: Sigh'd, and rose, and went away. Subject(s): Country Life; Deception; Love - Complaints; Nature PHILOSOPHER-KING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Why is that gallant Last Line: Put him in the infantry!' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PHOTO OF A MAN ON SUNSET DRIVE: 1914, 2008, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so it began: the earth torn, split open Last Line: For years after I too disappear into a photo Subject(s): City & Town Life; Photography & Photographers PHOTOS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister in her well-tailored silk blouse hands me Last Line: How I hate my destiny Subject(s): Family Life; Photography And Photographers PHRIXUS: WHAT IS LIFE?, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if that be life which we call death Last Line: They grieve no more and have no sorrow then. Subject(s): Life PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke at five and, unable Last Line: From the depths of sleep. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives PICKEN O' SCROFF, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The wood wer a-vell'd in the copse Last Line: The poor childern a-pickèn o' scroff. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers PICKERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day we were bent over, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PICKING GRAPES IN AN ABANDONED VINEYARD, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking grapes in the late autumn sun Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKING GRAPES IN AN ABANDONED VINEYARD, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking grapes in the late autumn sun Last Line: Carry the grapes up into the solemn house, %where I was born Subject(s): Farm Life PICKING SHAMROCK IN IRELAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Three leaves define the trinity Last Line: Satan to wash away our sins Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland PICKING WILD BLACKBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one but a bear should pick wild blackberries Last Line: He shambled off in lumbering retreat Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PICTURE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: In the foreground, something Last Line: Waiting to see what the water will bear Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life PICTURE-SHOW, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still they come and go: and this is all I know Last Line: And life is just the picture dancing on a screen. Subject(s): Life PICTURES, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The vet says, either you can give her a shot Last Line: And I say yes, yes, I do, even though I wasn't there Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Family Life; Horses; Sickness PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 22, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Crazy/to be alive in such a strange Subject(s): Life PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 5. HOMAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye songs! O my trusty numbers! Last Line: By her who last govern'd thy kingdom. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE RETURN HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my life, a life of darkness Last Line: Keeping up his wretched dinning Subject(s): Hearts; Homecoming; Life; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips PIG'S HEAVEN INN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): China; Country Life PIGEONS AT CANNON STREET, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye pigeons of the station with your loveliness of hues Last Line: Lost the verdant county acres and the freedom of the blue! Subject(s): Cities; London; Pigeons; Urban Life PIGEONS AT DAWN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extraordinary efforts are being made Subject(s): Morning; City & Town Life; Pigeons PINDARIC ODE: LIFE AND FAME, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, thou nothing's younger brother! Last Line: For all old homer's life e'er since he dy'd 'till now. Subject(s): Fame; Life; Reputation PINE CREEK PARISH HALL, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: If what we remember is what we are Last Line: The old rugged cross and rock of ages Subject(s): Life; Memory; Religion PIONEER WOMAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: One thought of ivory and precious lace Last Line: And worshiped beauty by a candle's light. Variant Title(s): Pioneer Mother Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers PIONEER WOMAN, by ELIZABETH DE MARY Poem Text First Line: I want my own to come to me Last Line: When lo, my heart's at rest. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers PIONEERS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came of bold and roving stock that would not fixed / abide Last Line: The founders of our nation's life, the brave old pioneers. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Pioneers PISA: THE DUOMO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, this is like a song writ long ago Last Line: Won from the boundaries of day and night. Subject(s): Italy; Life; Pisa, Italy; Time; Italians PISCATORIE ECLOGUES, SELS., by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah wretched swains, that live in fishers trade Subject(s): Country Life PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations PISTOL, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: It's a still and quiet twilight Last Line: He says, damn those old-timers! %why couldn't they pick up this crap? Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PITCHFORK, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all implements, the pitchfork was the one Last Line: Not in the aiming but the opening hand Subject(s): Farm Life PITCHING HAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's opposites, go where you will Last Line: Of pitching off and on. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers PITS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We go on and we tremble. Subject(s): God; Relationships; Conduct Of Life PITY OLD WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity old women who sit at windows Last Line: Waiting at windows 'til life ends. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Pity; Women PITYING THE FARMER, by LI SHEN Poem Source First Line: He hoes the grain under a midday sun Last Line: Who realizes that the food in the food bowl, %every last morsel of it, is bought with such toil? Subject(s): Farm Life PLACE AND TIME, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a man on the radio Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): War; Transience; Family Life; Impermanence; Relatives PLACE FOR A BOY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A field is a place for a small boy to play Last Line: A field is a place for a small boy to grow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLACE IN KANSAS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in kansas, a friend found Last Line: It's like that in kansas, forever Subject(s): Farm Life PLACE IS DEAR TO ME WHEREON MY FATHER, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life PLAGUES, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rain crow lusts in the hot, waxy pines Last Line: Keeping us, as if we could be let go Subject(s): Farm Life; Plague PLANETARIUM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Gibbons moon, night clicks Last Line: My hair at last come loose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PLANTATION, by MINNIE HITE MOODY Poem Source First Line: Here is a world from other worlds apart Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION, by MARGUERITE STEEDMAN Poem Source First Line: They said, 'the land lies here.' we turned Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION BOY, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: The cut sugar stalk is a sickle Last Line: It's a virus or a vaccine Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION DROUTH, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has not rained Last Line: Despite that bright, slow, loud antiphon %it will not rain Subject(s): Drought; Plantation Life PLANTATION MEMORIES, by IRWIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I heahs a heap o' people talkin', ebrywhar I goes Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY, by BRODDER ROMULUS Poem Source First Line: Spec' de good lawd kows de dif'rance 'twixt de woodchuck and Subject(s): Plantation Life PLANTATION WEDDING, by MARGARET W. HOBSON Poem Text First Line: Down on the old plantation Last Line: "in dem two gals!" Subject(s): Marriage; Plantation Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PLANTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learnt soon after I was born Last Line: "no crows are working johnson's corn." Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers PLANTING OF THE BLUE CORN, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: After the fields are planted Last Line: And the blue corn shoots %begin to grow Subject(s): Farm Life PLANTING PEAS, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's not spring yet, but I can't Last Line: Dancing in light green resses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PLANTING PURPLE POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not with prayers and incantations Last Line: This is my journey to peru Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLANTING SNOWDROPS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We cut through tangles in october Last Line: The wish that still returns Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary PLATE TALK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Batter catcher %oh man Last Line: I hit it %he out Subject(s): Country Life PLATONIST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: An ex-priest in the park Last Line: Drink deeply in the dark Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PLATT RIVER HOLDOUT, by KATY PEAKE Poem Source First Line: Where last month tasseled ranks of corn linked Last Line: To watch the crumbling furrows fill with dust behind him Subject(s): Farm Life PLAY OF REAL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From down here, oops, balcon. She walks erect Last Line: Cosmic bad casting but it's too late to start over Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Life; Mothers; Plays And Playwrights; Women PLAYGROUND INCIDENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The eagle soared above the playground with Last Line: Great wings were there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLAYING DEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our father liked to play a game. Last Line: Im way too young to quote em Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PLAYING WITH FOXY'S NOSE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I have a bay cutting filly Last Line: Each breating in contentment %while we're playing with foxy's nose Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PLEASANT COUNTY MAYING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In this merry maying time Subject(s): Country Life PLEASURES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY, by THOMAS FITZGERALD Poem Text First Line: No! No! 'tis in vain, in this turbulent town Last Line: "would be sentenced to dig in the mine?" Subject(s): City & Town Life; Country Life PLEDGES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the softness of the embracing sky Last Line: The last night's petulance unpacified! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Contentment PLOUGH AND A SPADE, by NGUYEN TRAI Poem Source First Line: A plough and a spade, that's all Last Line: I need no praise, I am deaf to laughter Subject(s): Farm Life PLOUGHMAN, by JOHN TRIPP Poem Source First Line: You may not get a chance Last Line: Before his plough went to a museum Subject(s): Farm Life PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming PLOWING, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Crawling steady at a slight slant Last Line: Of straight black lines across a flat field Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Plowing And Plowmen; Tractors PLOWING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an old woman plowing a field Last Line: For the crumb of bread its rock would yield. Subject(s): Fields; Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOWMAN, by JAMES CHRASTA Poem Source First Line: The frost bit deeper Subject(s): Farm Life PLUMS FAILING WELL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So what if plums fall Last Line: Small piece by small piece Subject(s): Plums; Life PLUSH, by HOWARD BUCK Poem Text First Line: How placidly the window goddesses Last Line: Of silks and furs and rugs and plush. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: My father could not make a poem Last Line: He made a poem in living green. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers POEM, by ALICE MOSER Poem Text First Line: The memory of a flamelike shadow Last Line: Recalling a forgotten vow. Subject(s): Life; Time POEM, by EDNA O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: When the blinds are down Last Line: While remembering the %sweet sips %of life Subject(s): Life Change Events POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth's in myth not fact Last Line: How bees made honey in a skull. Subject(s): Introspection; Life POEM, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ants came Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Conduct Of Life POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in the first century of world wars. Subject(s): World War I; World War Ii; Conduct Of Life; War - Home Front; First World War; Second World War POEM, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Twas on muskingum's flowery bank Last Line: When christ should call me home! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio POEM 1, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: What happens here happened to my grandfather and my father Last Line: Dragging the head of the land down Subject(s): Children; Family Life; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Women POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism POEM AFTER CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's life that is hard: waking, sleeping, eating, loving Last Line: Arrive once more at the house where love seemed to be in the air Subject(s): Andrade, Carlos Drummond De; Death; Life; Dead, The POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mattress factory explodes Last Line: Worth enduring the establishing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life POEM FOR MY FATHER'S GHOST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my father Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives POEM FOR MY FATHER'S GHOST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my father Last Line: A brother who has walked his thousand miles Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers POEM FOR MY MOTHER, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: Remember when I draped Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers POEM FOR MY SONS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Women; Conduct Of Life POEM FOR NOAM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: What grammars we contrive Last Line: Of either life or love Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality POEM NOTES, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: When he was 92, george hayden told me Last Line: Come clear and begin to fit together %in an olden way we will again remember Subject(s): Ranch Life POEM OF COFFEE, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, even as you drink it, you cannot say how it tastes. Yet you Last Line: Curtains, this pencil writing. It is these words before you,any time of the %year, any time, any day Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Thought POEM OF THE MOTHER, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: The heart goes out ahead Last Line: So when his time comes %he can leave me Subject(s): Family Life POEM ON HIS 44TH BIRTHDAY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: After so many years I've discovered Last Line: Rejoice, rejoice Subject(s): Birthdays; Family Life POEM ON RETURNING TO DWELL IN THE COUNTRY, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In youth I had nothing Last Line: Now I am able %to return again to nature Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Country Life POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM TO ELIADES OCHOA AND CUARTETO PATRIAS RENDITION OF SALUDO COMPAY, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oxen cart driven to the sugar cane fields Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers POEM TO HELP MY FATHER, by NORMA HOPE RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was young, and the day Subject(s): Family Life POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The POEM: 11, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: War pis winter oway wele wald I wene Last Line: þat he may at his ending -- haue heuin till his mede. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Nations; War POEMA DEL CITY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the city Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY 2, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light chill on the knees Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS FROM RIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right as rain yoju are, rain that shrivels Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poet doesn't live on love or roses Last Line: Green words will always ripen in his mouth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POET AND NATURALIST, by F. Z. S. LILFORD Poem Source First Line: Somewhere about 1860 my brother met Subject(s): Country Life POET FLAYS TEMPTATIONS OF CITY LIFE, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, abominable city! Last Line: -- but at times I wonder how they found it. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POET OF PALESTINE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: Poet, jesus, speak to me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: ARRIVED AT CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Arrived in good season at our journey's end Last Line: Whose tribe was assembled through this rebels advice. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; U.s. - History; Drills & Minor Tactics POETICS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the old story ann landers tells Last Line: Reading the meter, making things add up. Subject(s): Life POETS IN GROUPS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: In their photographs, %they stand frozen to permanence Last Line: Their faces, made blank, do not show the depths %in which they're held Subject(s): Family Life - India POINT OF NO RETURN, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Loading possessions %sorting for the journey Last Line: The wait is almost %over Subject(s): Ranch Life POINT OF VIEW, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: No heart for work Last Line: After all. Subject(s): Aging; Life POISON, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Not, as in olden times, round Last Line: In the breast, concealed %like an absurd obsession Subject(s): Life, Modern; Poisons And Poisoning POISON, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Not, as it used to be, round Last Line: Like an idee fixe Subject(s): Life, Modern; Poisons And Poisoning POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those cold regions which no summers cheer Last Line: And makes us happy by our own free-will. Variant Title(s): Prologues To The Duke And Duchess Of York: Prologue To His Royal Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); God; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life POLITICALLY INCORRECT SAGA, by VICTOR HOWES Poem Source First Line: She joined the army and she hoped Last Line: Three years a soldier - not yet groped Subject(s): Army Life POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLLICIE IN PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That princes may possess a surer seat Last Line: Tis fit they make no one with them too great. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POLLY CORTELYOU, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty polly cortelyou, / mistress of the ...' Last Line: Woo the farmer lasses! Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers POLYHYMNIA: DEDICATION TO THE COUNTESS OF LINDSEY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This laureat nymph, one of the daughters nine Last Line: While fame has breath her ivory trump to sound. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Family Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives POLYHYMNIA: VERSES TO LORD NORREYS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O true nobilitie, and rightly grac'd Last Line: Appearance. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Norreys, Francis. 3d Lord (1574-1603); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POLYIDUS: WHAT IS LIFE?, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if living after all is death Last Line: While death is counted life by those below? Subject(s): Life POOP, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: My daughter, blake, is in kindergarten Subject(s): Family Life POOR MAN'S SILVER, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: This is not the way it's supposed to end Last Line: Some earthly agony they call ascension Subject(s): Ranch Life POOR NORTH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, the snow is deep Subject(s): Cold; Family Life; Relatives POOR OLD WOMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her - Last Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POOR PETER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon dialed words out Last Line: When we're making a life %instead of a living Subject(s): Life; Relationships POOR WILL'S WIDOW, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Broad-faced as a cow, with bony knees Last Line: Don't need a heap of words %to prove it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers POORTITH CAULD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poortith cauld, and restless love Last Line: O why, &c. Subject(s): Lovw; Life; Future POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPPIES IN THE WHEAT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along ancona's hills the shimmering heat Last Line: Lithe poppies ran like torchmen with the wheat. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Variant Title(s): Poppies On The Wheat Subject(s): Farm Life; Poppies; Agriculture; Farmers PORCH SONG, by AGNES FOSTER SALMON Poem Source First Line: I am at peace, the chores all done Subject(s): Farm Life PORK CHOPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh mammy ca'line %a nigger polack ain't shit Subject(s): Fields; Labor Unions; Plantation Life; Strikes PORPHYROGNE, by JUDITH JAMES Poem Text First Line: The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown Last Line: We can remember, we can build as well! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly / when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: He looks down. Then he looks at me and grins. / I took it, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Aviation & Aviators; Relatives PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly %when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: When I put it down %she handed me a dime %as a tip. %he looks down. %then he looks at me and grins. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life PORTRAIT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child draws the outline of a body Subject(s): Family Life PORTRAIT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He walks along, unnoticing, with spring Last Line: And climb, unmoved, a parapet of stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PORTRAIT BY PICHER, by FRANCES BAKER Poem Text First Line: There are not many leaves Last Line: Bend wearily above the earth. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This family portrait Last Line: The long road of the flesh Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Pictures PORTRAIT OF A FATHER, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: My father was a hard man, closed Last Line: Flashing teeth flickering like gems in the dry air Subject(s): Fathers; Ranch Life PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by BONNIE D. ELKIN Poem Text First Line: Man of the soil, an ageless man Last Line: A farmer's field of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Agriculture; Farmers POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which we had we still possess Last Line: For what was ours we still possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions POSSIBILITIES, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Who knows, who knows, what passing thing Last Line: And hold in check—what seas of pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Life POSSIBILITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As day doth live beyond the sunset skies Last Line: And 'mid the wheels of fate a living god. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny POST NUBES LUX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm Last Line: I half adore thee as divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Storms; Winter POST-MORTEM JACKET COVER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his funeral, as he hovers above Last Line: Alive and barely kicking Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life POSTCARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days are cubes of light Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers POSTHUMAN, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I used to peer inside Last Line: Standing inside one another, %debating the size of nothing Subject(s): Future Life POSTMORTEM GUIDE [FOR MY EULOGIST, IN ADVANCE], by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not praise me for my exceptional serenity Last Line: In all sincerity say that they provided %a better way to be alone Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Death; Life POSTSCRIPT TO A SNOW DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You asked me what on earth I did Last Line: To make a proper list! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POT OF TEA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam Last Line: To-night we'll all be tellin' of the boches that we slew %as we drink the giddy victory in tea Subject(s): Army Life; Food And Eating; Tea; World War I POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: One potato Last Line: Three potato %four! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POTSO, MY WINE-DARK UNCLE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I incarcerate you behind Last Line: An empty mustard jar Subject(s): Family Life; Uncles POWER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power, farmer? It was always yours Last Line: Of empires with a tree's patience, %rooted in the dark soil Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life POWER AND PEACE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis never, or but seldom knowne Last Line: Power and peace to keep one throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Last Line: Their twin beds slept in, changed, made Subject(s): Life, Modern; U.s. - Congress POWERS OF WATER CARRY ME, by ELICURA CHIHUAILAF Poem Source First Line: I am old and I watch the horizon from a flowering tree Last Line: Oarsmen, row! I go in silence %in the invisible song of life Subject(s): Death; Life; Old Age PRACTICALITY, by JIM HAMMONS Poem Source First Line: If he humps up to buck Last Line: Isn't done by a broken hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PRACTICING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son is practicing the piano. Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives PRAIRIE EARTH, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Some day I shall return to prairie earth Subject(s): Farm Life PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky Last Line: Behind the snarling plough. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains PRAIRIE HYMN, by FRANCES V. STEGEMAN Poem Source First Line: O blessed peace that passeth understanding Subject(s): Farm Life PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In northwestern minnesota, the horizon's a circle Last Line: O'clock siren, at the blank, bald eye of empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life; Memory; Minnesota; Poetry And Poets; Prairies PRAIRIE PICTURES, by T. W. STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing of mountain peaks capped by eternal snow Last Line: Before the sable angel rings the curtain of the day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Peace; Pictures; Agriculture; Farmers PRAISE BE FOR MUD!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Praise be for mud when the frost goes out Last Line: Praise be for mud! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PRAISE LIFE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This country least, but every inhabited country Last Line: Rattled in a dry gourd Subject(s): Life PRAISES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vegetables please us with their modes and virtues Last Line: Flowers, love's language, love, heart's ease, poems, praise Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Plants; Praise; Vegetables; Planting; Planters PRAYER, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Our father who I know is on earth Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PRAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choked we live, and choked we die Last Line: Death! Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Prayer; Dead, The PRAYER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baudelaire's grave %not too far Last Line: That is eternity wearing %the green leaves of time Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Future Life; Poetry And Poets PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not undertake to say Last Line: "says ""pray, for prayer availeth much." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Heaven; Hope; Life; Prayer; Soul; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism PRAYER FOR A CITY CHILD, by DOROTHY P. ALBAUGH Poem Text First Line: I am not rich enough, dear god Last Line: To claim his heritage. Subject(s): Country Life PRAYER FOR FAMILY LOVE, by JOHN S. HOYLAND Poem Source First Line: Father, %grant unto us true family love Last Line: One eternal glory of divine self-sharing Variant Title(s): For Family Lov Subject(s): Family Life; Religion PRAYER OF THE HOMESTEADER, by PAULINE LATTIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, gently thou nevada Subject(s): Farm Life PRAYER TO TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Move onward, time, and bring us sooner free Subject(s): Country Life PRAYER, OR NOSTALGIA FOR HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, just give me a map, and I'll follow it. Last Line: On all of us, on each earth-bound beauty's sleeping cheek Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A Last Line: Grown immortal in his mind Subject(s): Farm Life; Prayer; Agriculture; Farmers PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A Last Line: Make the human race a better head. Make the world a better %piece of ground Subject(s): Farm Life PRAYERS OF STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god Last Line: White stars. Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life PREACHING, by FEDERICO ODUBER Poem Source First Line: Oh! Last Line: No more than I do of this earth Subject(s): Life; Religion PRECEPTS OF CHIRON: LENGTH OF LIFE, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine times the span of an old old man Last Line: The nymphs of the shining hair. Subject(s): Life; Time PRECEPTS OF GOVERNANCE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Praise and promote the basest men Last Line: And tax them till they weep Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PREFATORY STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of necromantic wights Last Line: Bids them all hail, and wafts them every feeling kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Magic; Memory; Necromancy; Past PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life PRELUDE, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The limit of the song is this Subject(s): Life PRELUDE, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Leaf-shadows into my lap came sifting Last Line: Lo—the tree was the tree of life! Subject(s): Life PRELUDE (BOOKS 1-14), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: In beauty exalted, as it is itself %of quality and fabric more divine Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Sleep; Travel PREPARATION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no time for those things now,' we say Last Line: The life we spent preparing well to live. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Soul PREPARATION, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bone-man lives in a stucco Subject(s): Family Life; Dogs; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PREPARATIONS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: In late august they cross the street Last Line: Ah gust! This like any other %a shudder holding its own course Subject(s): Family Life - India PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 87, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! Life! What's that? It is a taske too hard Last Line: Will give my life and selfe to thee with joy. Subject(s): Life; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 90, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal life! What life is this, I pray? Last Line: Thy sweetest tunes shall ring eternall joy. Subject(s): Future Life; Puritans In Literature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PREPARE THE FALL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Expect the symptoms of fall: Last Line: See how dusk shines like the eye %of abalone. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love PRESCIENCE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A precious place is paradise and none may know its worth Last Line: And vision earth and heaven, with a rustic bridge between. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise PRESCIENCE, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The trees that were in summer decked Last Line: Imploring, saddened arms of eld. Subject(s): Autumn; Future Life; Mortality; Seasons; Fall; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PRESENCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: There's less in actual life than seems Last Line: Can sight or touch deliver thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Life PRESENT AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the ages ever known Last Line: I fear you'll see the right on't Subject(s): American Revolution; Friends, Religious Society Of; Independence; Life Change Events PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life that we should love it Last Line: Ever glowing more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PRESTO FURIOSO, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spontaneous us! Last Line: Good old eagle! Subject(s): Army Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Drills & Minor Tactics PRETTY, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source Last Line: Oh, I wish he'd hurry up! Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Fathers PRETTY AS A PICTURE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With your face in your hands Last Line: Telling us to smile like angels, %smile just enough to break his heart. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love PRETTY HAPPY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no siblings who've killed themselves Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Joy; Delight PRETTY HAPPY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no siblings who've killed themselves Last Line: For the baseball bat I keep hidden under our bed Subject(s): Happiness; Life PRETTY LITTLE BLACK-EYED SUSIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love my wife, I love my baby Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life PRICE OF HONOR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You cheated he shouted Last Line: Were paying the price Subject(s): Country Life PRIEST AND FRIEND, by A. F. VAN BIBBER Poem Source First Line: A priest of god, his table you have spread Subject(s): Clergy; Farm Life PRIEST TO HIS PEOPLE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the hills, wantoners, men of wales Last Line: In a crude tapestry under the jealous heavens %to affront, bewilder, yet compel my gaze Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Clergy; Farm Life; Wales PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious illuminations, made on high Last Line: Which from th' eternal battlements were flung. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Crystallization; Physics; Sky; Universe; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRINCES AND FAVOURITES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Princes and fav'rites are most deere, while they Last Line: When these can aske, and kings can give no more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRIOR TO MISS BELLE'S APPEARANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes you come here fer, mister Last Line: Ist fly-an' ever-thing! . . . I wisht I'd die! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives PRISON, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is a prison to man all his life Last Line: Out, if you can Subject(s): Life PRISON-HOUSE OF FLESH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "our body is our doom, a place of death" Last Line: The soul escapes to god and reaches heaven Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution;eternity;after Life PRIVATE, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: The buck private %obeys orders Last Line: Private sector -- synonomous with profit %ever greater profit Subject(s): Army Life; Privacy PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PRIVATE SHOWING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I lock his hat in its tall box Last Line: Then give to him, shining Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PRIVATE THEATRICALS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quite convincing axiom Last Line: "and fain would ""ring the curtain down." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights PRIVILEGE OF BEING, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Many are making love. Up above, the angels Last Line: And to the immense, illiterate, consoling angels Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life PRIZE POSSESSION, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: What's the last thing you would part with? Last Line: But just straighten up, take out the tube %and add a little wax Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PROBABLE PERMANENCE OF TOYS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: The government is looking for landfills Last Line: Until it tumbles my house to fill it Subject(s): Life; Politics; Toys PROBABLY THE FARMER, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: Probably the farmer hid in the valley Last Line: The farmer became a citizen Subject(s): Farm Life PRODIGAL SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young man - %young man Last Line: And say in your heart: %I will arise and go to my father Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry PROEM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the mocking-bird, returned Last Line: That, denied to desire, obedience yet may invite thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): England; Life; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; English PROFESSION: GHOST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: He knew a lot about art and I must confess %together we composed many of my paintings Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PROGNOSIS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Diffuse the outpourings of the spiritual coward Subject(s): Life PROGRESS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hadn't once called his committee Last Line: "and ""I report progress,"" said he." Subject(s): Corporate Life PROLETARIAN PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A big young bareheaded woman Subject(s): City & Town Life PROLOGUE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine was the life planned to go wrong Last Line: With whispers, your legs trembling Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winters spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-bes and gonna-bes Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROLOGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine forth, ye planets, with distinguished light Last Line: Virtue was taught in verse, and athens' glory rose. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Planets; War PROLOGUE FOR MRS. SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What needs this din about the town o' london Last Line: God help us! We're but poor -- ye'se get but thanks. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new. Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since faction ebbs, and rogues grow out of fashion Last Line: Whigg poets and whigg sheriffs may hang together. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends. Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers; Urban Life PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROMISING (A MAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a new world, the sun-swart marinere Last Line: But -- ah, for present joy, give me one kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PROOF, by VERA WILLIS-REESE Poem Source First Line: Our faith in nature's power is born anew Subject(s): Farm Life PROPHECY, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: We're not watching the fireworks this year Last Line: I think so,' you say, and I know then -- it is settled Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PROPHETIC DESIRES, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why are not yet my christals malleable Subject(s): Country Life PROS & CONS: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, NANNERL MOZART, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: If only he were english! Last Line: Thirty-three; he's forty-eight; %he may die first Subject(s): Life; Marriage PROSE 22, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plan of the city of o. The great square Subject(s): City & Town Life PROSE POEM, by JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay in the hall of mirrors Last Line: Processional sadness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Mirrors; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROSOPOPOIA, OR MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month, in which the righteous maide Last Line: And bad her tongue, that it so bluntly tolde. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROSPECTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuggets of wisdom, I've been told Last Line: I'm off to the mountains with grubstake and mule Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PROSPERITY, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The big company bought the little company Last Line: Became clear to the workers Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Money PROSPERO [OR, CLOUDS], by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do look, my son, in a moved sort Subject(s): Country Life PROVERBS 31, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: What a rare find is a capable wife! Last Line: Extol her for the fruit of her hand, %and let her works praise her in the gates Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS 31. AN UPDATED VERSION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who can find a wise woman? Last Line: Many women have done wisely %but she excels them all Subject(s): Shalvi, Alice; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS IN RHYME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time makes us eagle-eyed Last Line: Once only while we live. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life PROVERBS: THE JOYS OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed are those who have discovered wisdom Last Line: Glory is the portion of the wise, %all that fools inherit is contempt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: THE SUPREME INVITATION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And now, my children, listen to me Last Line: All who hate me are in love with death Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS CREATOR, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning Last Line: At play everywhere on his earth, %delighting to be with the children of men Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS HOSTESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom has built herself a house Last Line: Leave foolishness behind you and you will live, %go forwards in the ways of perception Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM SPEAKS, A WARNING TO THE HEEDLESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom calls aloud in the streets Last Line: But whoever listens to me may live secure, %will have quiet, fearing no mischance Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVINCIA, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: Six o'clock. The cathedral blesses Last Line: Save you from total softening of the brain Subject(s): Country Life; Peru; Tradition; Travel PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beaker of yeast Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life PSALM FOR DISTRIBUTION, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology PUEBLO, by LOUNES MATOUB Poem Source First Line: Pity, lord, pity on my poor town Last Line: Where my poor people will die of nothing! Subject(s): City And Town Life; Poverty; Puerto Rico PUNK HALF PANTHER, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sliding, always: for black journeys, always in holiness Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Social Commentary; Relationships PUPPET-MAKER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his fear of solitude, he made us. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Solitude; Night; Loneliness; Bedtime PURCHASE OF SMALL SECRETS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Along this bank %ill make no sound Last Line: Of an afternoon %of silence Subject(s): Country Life PURIM, by LABEL Poem Text First Line: Queen esther-so the scriptures say Last Line: On purim. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism PURPLE TULIPS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: After a weekend of shakespeare %and talk and friends, the renewal of Last Line: Of the road; it will always bring us home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PURSUANCE, by FERN MARY MUNSELL Poem Text First Line: Daring to do, we invade Last Line: We dare to pursue the phobias of itme! Subject(s): Life PURSUIT AND POSSESSION, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold what pleasure is pursuit Last Line: Will-of-the-wisp, that I may still pursue! Subject(s): Life PUZZLE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Based on biblical teaching Last Line: Under my bed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina PYRAMID OF ENMITY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: The mist continues Last Line: And while I scrape my knees, %slip farther away and break myelbows, %poetry is hoisted up Subject(s): Human Rights; Life Q IS FOR QUESTION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The man who tells me he has seen a ghost Last Line: "what lies beyond this life I lead to-day!""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUAIL AND HIS ROLE IN AGRICULTURE, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: Now it's here Last Line: My grandfathers before me, it continues %to be a transmitter of prayer. %beautiful yellow corn... Subject(s): Farm Life QUALITIES OF DARKNESS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I snap off my light Last Line: Holding back %the darkness Subject(s): Country Life QUALITY OF SPRAWL, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawl is the quality Last Line: And thinks it unlikely. Though people have been shot for sprawl Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Farm Life QUANTRAINS: LIFE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inwoven wreaths of mist Last Line: And lands unknown. Subject(s): Life QUARREL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Climbing in sullen silence past treeline Last Line: Amateurs who never locked horns with you Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality QUARREL, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since morning they have been quareling Subject(s): Quarrels; Family Life; Arguments; Disagreements; Relatives QUARREL OF PAIRS, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hayfield is harrowed Last Line: What a roundness of words to hold in your hand Subject(s): Farm Life; Neighbors QUARRIED STONE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: He who lay on rock Last Line: The sun on quarried stone. Subject(s): Abandonment; Family Life; Sleep; Desertion; Relatives QUART OF MILK WEIGHTS TWO POUNDS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: My hands have swollen twice their single size Subject(s): Farm Life QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUEEN BATH, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Shrine of the healing waters, peerless bath Last Line: To be the beauteous city of a dream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness QUESTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spirit, body Last Line: Become of %me? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life QUESTION, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: Could I have been in maryland Subject(s): Farm Life QUESTION FOR WILDE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Oscar, you say we're all in Last Line: At the raw economics of hate Subject(s): Life; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) QUESTION OF CONTROL, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: If you need %to be Last Line: That %concept Subject(s): Country Life QUESTIONS OF LIFE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bending staff I would not break Last Line: The eternal beauty new and old! Subject(s): Life; Religion; Theology QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only Last Line: With their bloom, passes. Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness QUIET, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: The grapes are ripe, the field is plowed Last Line: The final agony Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET LIFE, by DAVID EDGE COPE Poem Source First Line: Minh will turn down citizenship Last Line: Four people die, %& this in good weather Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET LIFE AND A GOOD NAME, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nell scolded in so loud a din Last Line: Are used like dick, and bear the blame Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIET LITTLE BODY, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: A quiet little body,' they all you, dear ... Subject(s): Farm Life QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused QUIET MONEY, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: The bootlegger opens his eyes and stares Last Line: How what we do to get them can make us sorry... %send the word, send the word to beware Subject(s): Alcock, John William (1892-1919); Ambition; Aviation And Aviators; Brown, Arthur Whitten (1886-1948); Family Life; Fathers And Daughters; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) QUIET SPACES, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The world stops in the middle of its course Last Line: And your life weeps for the boredom of it all Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets QUIETNESS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In city crowds, in whirls of sound and Last Line: My soul and I. Subject(s): Quiet Life QUIS CUSTODIET...?, by VICTOR HOWES Poem Source First Line: The colonel told the captain, 'post a guard Last Line: Captain, we never had this conversation Subject(s): Army Life QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips R.F.D. MAILBOX, by S. A. WALSH Poem Source First Line: I was haven Last Line: Sole monument Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty RABBIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose it takes a feller 'at's be'n Last Line: Fer eatin' purposes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Rabbits; Youth; Hares RADIO SKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue house at mills cross Last Line: Drifting under the familiar worn sheet. Subject(s): Comfort; Cruelty; Family Life; Infertility; Relatives RAILROAD BUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All around the water tank Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life RAIN, by NEWMAN LEVY Poem Source First Line: On the ilse of pago pago, land of palm trees, rice and sago Subject(s): Islands; Life; Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Women RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hain't no use to grumble and complane Last Line: W'y, rain's my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Wet Weather Talk Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Rain; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers RAIN, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: The sound of the rain is like the voice of a mystic Last Line: Then the dead stand up and live again. Subject(s): Life; Rain RAIN AND SUNSHINE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the country Last Line: And sunshine of home! Subject(s): Country Life; Weather RAIN IN THE CITY, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: There is abroad this night in every place Last Line: Walk sleepless now and troubled in the rain. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life RAIN PRAYER, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: For so long, we've longed for rain Last Line: Rain remembrance of thy love Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAIN SONG, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio blares dialogue of souls Last Line: Those who despair Subject(s): Rain; Despair; Youth; Family Life; Coming Of Age; Relatives RAINBOW GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a rainbow where all colors blend Last Line: Will you behold the fabled pot of gold! Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Rainbows; Paradise RAINBOW OF A DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday was a day to savor and remember Last Line: I wonder if we'll see again such a rainbow of a day? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RAINY DAY, by RUSSELL BECKWITH Poem Text First Line: Too many things have died around this place Last Line: We are too many things, the terrible blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The RAISED IN THE DARK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What wood can do - what curves! Last Line: I like to think I've come this far Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives RAISIN EYES, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: I saw my friend ella Last Line: She said with a little laugh Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RALEIGH WAS RIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors RAMAYANA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cabled tomorrow I am coming Last Line: Froze between the moon and me Subject(s): Bombay, India; Family Life; Travel RANCH NIGHT, WINTER, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rises from his chair, unkinks his back Last Line: Drifts into slumber, glad the sheets are warm. Subject(s): Ranch Life RANCH WOMAN, by MARGARET CARROLL BRADY Poem Text First Line: She skimmed sour cream with a wide flat spoon Last Line: She tasted nectar only wild bee sips. Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women RANCHER ROULETTE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's no trick to get killed ranching Last Line: He said, 'I hope I don't live to be a hundred; %I can't afford it.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RANCHERS, by MAURICE LESEMANN Poem Source First Line: They went off on the buckboard in the rain Subject(s): Farm Life RANCHERS' REVENGE, by BOB CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: We'd worked all day a-branding calves Last Line: If that steer did to washington %what washington done to us Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life RANDALL JARRELL, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream went like a rake of sliced bamboo, Subject(s): Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Death; Life; Dead, The RAPE OF TIBET, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The I ching summons me to its shelf Last Line: To the immutable law of change Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RAPUNZEL, RAPUNZEL, by KATE BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: The day we flew %clint's crop duster over the tides Last Line: Unfurled like a flag, claiming %her piece of the prairie Subject(s): Farm Life RAQUEL WELCH READ TOM WOLFE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Raquel welch read tom wolfe %I read judith krantz Last Line: It was a platonic relationship %this side of gucciland Subject(s): Family Life - India RARE FIND, by RANDALL J. RIEMAN Poem Source First Line: It's a wonderful thing Last Line: And the feelin' that's there %is more lasting and precious than gold Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life RARE INTERVALS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: At times, all life's a chord, sublime Last Line: Earth's palpitating soul! Subject(s): Life; Soul RASPBERRY APPARITIONS, by KEITH GEORGE ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: My mother met my father Last Line: For her, now Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Widows And Widowers RAVEN PRIEST, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: At the seaside Last Line: I wake to the cries of village roosters Subject(s): Family Life - China RAVEN/MOON, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: In first people's sky there is no moon Last Line: Raven listens, whistling in stunted trees Subject(s): Family Life; History; Legends, Native American RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings; Childhood; Dead, The; Relatives RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings RAZING THE WOODLOT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Here stands the grove our tenant plans to fell Last Line: To teach us the temerity of dreams Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality REACHING IN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: What goes on %inside those wooly bodies Last Line: I have greater respect for my hand now than I used to Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers READINESS IS ALL, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence Last Line: To come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the %readiness is all Subject(s): Life Change Events READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Last Line: Become so again, for a while Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships READING IN PLACE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a poem that starts with a couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers READING IN PLACE, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a poem that starts with a couple Subject(s): Farm Life READING POETRY LATE AT NIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Almost but nor quite Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Poetry And Poets READY, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: With wild heart schooled to silence by years Subject(s): Farm Life READY FOR THE CANNERY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of phrases chock full of praise Subject(s): New York City; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple READY POSITION, by JOAN STERN Poem Source First Line: Everything begins with this Last Line: Here, at this moment %with you there, caring Subject(s): Life; Memory REAL STORY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sucking on hard candy Last Line: Enough chickens %tell us a real story Subject(s): Family Life REAL TIME, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: .. Where hiroshima was, someone said, there's a little star, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Divorce REALISM, by IDA C. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Why strive for 'plays' to amuse and attract Last Line: Depicts, without disguise? Subject(s): Life; Reality REALITY TRICK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Keep is the room I know Last Line: To hush! The thrill %and quiet after Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives REALIZATION, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Momma said, 'pretty does!' Last Line: I offer this gift to others Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sky that has never known sun, moon or stars Last Line: On brick walls. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life REASONS FOR LIVING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking with the backward Last Line: Epidermis, leaf blade and sheath Subject(s): Life; Nature REASONS FOR RAIN, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: We gather roday on the doorstone Last Line: When the pony rolled over and the cattle %kicked up their heels Subject(s): Rain; Ranch Life REBELLION, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: To wake at morn, and hear a little laugh Subject(s): Country Life; Nature RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECEIPT FOR BLACKBERRY PIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Take juicy blackberries, sweet with august sun Last Line: And there is more than a receipt to learn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RECIPE FOR LIVING, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON Poem Text First Line: Some things a man must surely know Last Line: A faith in man, a trust in god. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RECOLLECTION, by CONRAD CHITTICK Poem Text First Line: My mother used to seat me by her side Last Line: "thumb in my fist, and -- ""sh-h my sleepy child." Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN Poem Text First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) RED BEARD, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: Travelling Last Line: My %breathing %blood Subject(s): Farm Life RED BRICKS AND CAMPHOR TREES, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mandolin from the madhouse Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RED CLOUD, by ALAN WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: The cat %had to come into restaurants. She was too rare Last Line: The world is bare as a piece of sheet iron. And no work %was not once contained in some youthful bod Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Cats; Life RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so, here happily we meet, fair friend Last Line: A month ago: at vire they tried the case. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Paris, France; Country Life RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This harpie with dry red curls Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness RED FOX, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The red fox sits alone upon a rock Last Line: Title returns to him when it grows dark! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RED LESSONS, by ELIZABETH ANTALEK Poem Source First Line: My mother taught me how to light Last Line: Behind me-a new fire to contain Subject(s): Family Life RED RAIN, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: February rain, red rain, Last Line: Is silently spread on the south yangtze Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; Villages RED RIDING-HOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet little myth of the nursery story Last Line: For the meal have he must, -- red riding-hood! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Woods RED RIVER VALLEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From this valley they say you are going Last Line: Is the prayer of the red river girl Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life RED RIVER VALLEY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From this valley they say you are going Last Line: If you only will love me again Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life RED ROCK CEREMONIES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The clear moon arcs Last Line: I am making the words %speak in circles Subject(s): Family Life; History; West (u.s.); Women RED SKY AR NIGHT IS A SHEPHERD'S DELIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life REDEMPTION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning this / july, so far Subject(s): Christianity; Conduct Of Life REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement REEL ESTATE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep - sleep - then the kitchen trap Subject(s): Conduct Of Life REFLECTION, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: It was open session sign up Last Line: Is always found in love's reflection Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of plato in a schoolroom dusk Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics REFLECTIONS; LOOKING OVER A GATE AT A POOL IN A FIELD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What change has made the pastures sweet Last Line: The maiden with the milking-pail! Variant Title(s): A Maiden With A Milking-pail Subject(s): Hearts; Life REFLEXES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a powder the druggist had Subject(s): Family Life REFUGE, by SARAH ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: There was nothing, it seemed, to see Last Line: Filled reckless air with shimmering Subject(s): Life REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish REGRETS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for I wish to be alone among the tombs Last Line: Finding my ashes' heat more fervent than their lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Nature; Regret; Dead, The REGULUS RETURNS TO CARTHAGE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atqui sciebat quae sibi barbarus Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life REINCARNATION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how, I know not where Last Line: They left the hills of light. Subject(s): God; Life; Reincarnation; Soul; Transmigration; Pretas REJECTED ADDRESSES: CUI BONO, BY LORD B., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sated with home, of wife, of children tired Last Line: And moody madness laughs and hugs the chain he clanks. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Family Life; Home; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Relatives REJECTED ADDRESSES: MACBETH, BY MOMUS MEDLAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, boy, and thy good mistress tell Last Line: Ri fol de rol, &c. Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) REJECTED ADDRESSES: PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS, BY S. T. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive public, wherefore look you sad? Last Line: [exit hastily. Subject(s): Beauty; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Life; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Thought; Thinking RELAPSE, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: Aa books and coors cans Last Line: And know he'll kill you yet Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RELATING TO ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in chelsea, early summer Last Line: The boats moved silently and the low whistles blew Subject(s): Ghosts; City & Town Life RELATIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just the thought of them makes your jawbone ache Last Line: To love one's self is to love them all Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives RELATIVES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just the thought of them makes your jawbone ache Last Line: To love one's self is to love them all Subject(s): Family Life RELATIVITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only this at last I say Last Line: Distance is the breadth of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Life; Nightmares RELAY AT EVENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dogs send signals in the hollow dusk Last Line: Strange and deep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology RELIGION AND DOCTRINE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before the sanhedrim Last Line: He knew, and not the sanhedrim. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Worship RELIGIOUSNESS OF SCIENCE, by ALBERT EINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scient Last Line: Religious geniuses of all ages Subject(s): Life Change Events RELIQUARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The golden lock from my son's first haircut Last Line: Of the holy bones of my black dog who could fly Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Spiritual Life REMAINS, by TED LORD Poem Source First Line: She was the girlfriend who dumped my grandfather Last Line: At the roosters, smiled, sat on our hands Subject(s): Family Life REMEDIES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a cough Subject(s): Family Life REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am gone away Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dead Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Last Line: And simplify me when I'm dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dea Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning REMEMBER THE INCREDIBLE, by DEREK SHEFFIELD Poem Source First Line: Shrinking man who battled Last Line: We lose from our life, matching, exactly, the pace of our grief... Subject(s): Life; Mankind REMEMBER:, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Remember: long ago before people moved Last Line: Long ago there was one people: %one color %one race Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness REMEMBERED SCENES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the wood my holy angel-child Last Line: Love weaves my web of life, both warp and woof. Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Forests; Life; Woods REMEMBERING, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rosana was our mammy's niece Last Line: When we were gone. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives REMEMBERING MY FATHER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I seize the ladder by its shoulder Last Line: Gaiety because I'm frowning too, because %I know exactly what I look like Subject(s): Family Life REMEMBERING WILLIE MAE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I remember like last night, willie mae coming to town Last Line: You know, willie mae, some things just ain't meant to be.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are tales to be told of the land and the sea Last Line: The soul's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Sea Voyages; Retribution; Eternity; After Life REMINISCENCES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I'm watching the bright rosy sunset Last Line: And the romance that never was told Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio REMOVAL OF OUR VILLAGE, KWABHANYA, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: O, I remember you Last Line: Mlungu, we are zulus, born fighters, %we will take our spears and fight for our lands Subject(s): Farm Life RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RENTED HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY, by JAMES REISS Poem Source First Line: Nail a bushel basket without a bottom Last Line: To the boy who lives there. Say that boy is you Subject(s): Family Life; Houses RENUNCIATION, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we given up thy spell, renunciation? Last Line: Then in her arms she held him: he was hers... Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery RENUNCIATION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No man hath gain'd soul-mastery, without Last Line: Widens life's whole horizon to his sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Religion; Theology REPETITIONS, by DAVID WOO Poem Source First Line: When he kneels in the gravel Last Line: Helpless, self-conscious, slightly lopsided, %like our father's Subject(s): Family Life; Walking REPINING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat alway through the long day Last Line: "forgive me, for the sake of love." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love REPLICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker. Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating REPLY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bird, bird, don't edge me in Last Line: And, like you, bird, I sing, %a man, a man alive Subject(s): Birds; Life REPLY TO THE PROVINCES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He writes from the provinces: it is Subject(s): Country Life; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris REPLY TO THE PROVINCES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He writes from the provinces: it is Last Line: Perhaps they are lying among the leaves, laughing, %pointingout for each other the brown faces in th Subject(s): Country Life; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris REPORTER AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I must record important happenings Last Line: I wonder what the scale will be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: ODE TO PISSEFONTAINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Muses, I dub myself, despite each rival claim, with haughty heraldry Last Line: Stentorian tread the rhythm of my lay? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens REQUIEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: To mourn a fallen friend Last Line: If not to praise the dead? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality REQUIEM, by MASTER WOLMYONG Poem Source First Line: On the hard road of life and death Last Line: Until we meet in the pure land Subject(s): Future Life REQUIESCAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be it life, be it death, there is nearing Last Line: Of death to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow! Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) RESIGNATION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: If I knew that death's portal held for me Last Line: When all great things shall be at my command. Subject(s): God; Life RESOLUTION, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since life is like a burning house, what can he make Subject(s): Life RESOURCES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late may remakes the park, even Last Line: Fence railings, one pigeon on promenade Subject(s): Fortitude; Life; Summer RESPITE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty conflict, which we call existence Last Line: Grant us a respite in the grave between. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Bodies; Life; Sea; Soul; Ocean REST, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are so tired, my heart and I Last Line: The absolution of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Life REST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread, spread thy silver wings, o dove! Last Line: Flutter again to thy quiet nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Time; Dead, The REST AT EVENING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the weariness of life is ended Last Line: O how poor a day to be so blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Life; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness REST FROM LOVING AND BE LIVING, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cease denying, begin knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Conduct Of Life RESTING AIR: 'WHISPER SOFTLY, MOTHER'S DYING', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I am tired dearest mother Last Line: Saved forever from all harm Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio RESURRECTION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though art and learning currently decline Last Line: So was catullus spared oblivion Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RESURRECTION, by E. H. PORTER Poem Source First Line: In varied changelessness earth waits serene Subject(s): Farm Life RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN Poem Text First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings Last Line: Upon the earth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RESURRECTION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He resteth: weep not Last Line: That he inherits. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology RESURRECTION OF THE DAUGHTER, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The family had been ill for some time Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans; Daughters; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives RETIREMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest Last Line: Freedom for solitude, silence, and rest. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Rest; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETREAT, by DAVID JAMES SMITH Poem Source First Line: Here my breath %calms; the mind spreads Last Line: Sweeps in, chilling, %theatrical and dark Subject(s): Life; Seasons RETRIBUTION, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: I spilt my blood upon a battlefield Last Line: Behold the courage of the wandering jew! Subject(s): Dreams; Hate; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Life; Nightmares; Judaism RETRIBUTION, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the mills of god grind slowly Last Line: Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RETRIBUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mills of the gods grind late, but they grind fine Subject(s): Future Life RETURN, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: They who quit the soil with hopes swung high Last Line: As strong hands close again on rusting plow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers RETURN, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: Earth offers its greeting, with a paternal kiss Last Line: Inscribing fast circles of joy in the air Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Homecoming RETURN OF THE WOLVES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: All through the valley, the people are whispering Last Line: And my scars are not from loving wolves Subject(s): Family Life; History RETURN TO THE BEARTOOTH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Each year our packs grow heavier Last Line: Of the mountain older Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious Last Line: Might be brought back at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My youth felt no comfort in common things Last Line: For long time I was kept inside a coop, %now again I return to the natural way Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the outlands few things trouble a man Last Line: And they will fall to ruin with common weeds Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (2), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I plant beans below the southern hill: Last Line: I choose not to avoid anything that comes Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening REUBEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not) Last Line: In henly meditation, bullet free. Subject(s): Farm Life; Guns; Hens; Agriculture; Farmers REVELATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far down the moonlight dim of memory Last Line: That brings us life forever and forever. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers REVEREND DAN RICE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: Up first thing and ride Last Line: Through brief shoals of aspen Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Harvest; Rice REVERIE, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: Drinking coffee, with a moon of pale cream Last Line: Why does a fire sigh %as it gnaws wood to ash? Subject(s): Life REVERIE DURING BRIEFING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simplest memory is books by ferny windows Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger Last Line: But news of a breeze Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature REVIEWING PAST LIVES WHILE LEAF-BURNING, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The air is a smoke-tree, the wind Subject(s): Family Life; History REVIVAL COMES TO KNOXVILLE, 1970, by PARKS LANIER Poem Source First Line: On a warm evening, the city is the new jerusalem Last Line: Unto caesar what is caesar's, and unto god very little at all Subject(s): Cities; Knoxville, Tennessee; Life; Travel REWARD, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Knee deep in alfalfa %my horse snort Last Line: This one time please dont let me win Subject(s): Country Life RHAPSODY, by RENE ALBOURNE DEPENDER Poem Text First Line: A kin am I this hour to winds that sing Last Line: One is my soul with life, and life goes on. Subject(s): Life; Soul RHAPSODY OF LIFE, by IDA LILLIAN PETERSEN Poem Text First Line: What is this thing called life Last Line: Shielding the world from our sight? Subject(s): Life RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray Last Line: May means remembering you! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares RHYMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask a rhymeless sonnet since, you say Last Line: Words of a tongue that else had died unspoken. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme RHYTHM, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all a rhythm Last Line: Light at the opening %dark at the closing Subject(s): Life RHYTHM OF LIFE, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: A rhythm is beating in the universe Last Line: A rhythm is beating. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Universe RIALTO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets; Names; Stage Life RICE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: It is our very teeth that we sink in the earth Last Line: Anoint the earth and make it good to eat Subject(s): China; Farm Life; Mongols And Mongolia; Rice RICE PLANTING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Even my mother has taught herself %to acquire the taste of butter & bread Last Line: From the fourth generation %tells me he's hungry and smiles %when I hand him a riceball %the size of Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Rice RICHARD RECITES THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Four score and seven years... The boy's head Last Line: And the tall gaunt man with the bowed head Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RICHER THINGS, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I have forsaken myrtle bordered bowers Subject(s): Farm Life RICHES CHANCE MAY TAKE OR GIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and beauty, mirth, and pleasure fail" Subject(s): Life RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens RIDE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Slow slow quick quick slow-ride Last Line: The dead man never knows he's dead Subject(s): Adolescence; Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Life RIDE TO THE CATTLE, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: The ashes lie smirking Last Line: That my love lets him ride to the cattle Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RIDER, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time we are getting drunk on retsina Subject(s): Family Life; Divorce; Relatives RIDERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we havent tried Subject(s): Life Change Events RIDERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we haven't tried Subject(s): Life Change Events RIDERS OF THE STARS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty abreast down the golden street ten thousand Last Line: And a viewless rider swept the sky on the trail of a shooting star? Subject(s): Cowboys; Heaven; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Paradise; Southwest; Pacific States RIDGE RUNNER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: If I could live on white oak ridge Subject(s): Farm Life RIDING HORSE TO CULTIVATE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hottest seat in any state Last Line: This riding horse to cultivate. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us ride together Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States RIDING SONG, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: I sit my horse Last Line: And only the hills are forever Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Ranch Life RIDING THE BUS IN MIDWINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If a barn could loosen itself Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING TO THE HUNT, by WILLIAM AUGUSTINE LEAHY Poem Text First Line: String your arrow to my lips, harry lincoln Last Line: Sober death's dancing, too, at life's door. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Love; Luck; Dead, The; Parting RIDING UP THE TANANA RIVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the mountains moving to the sea - Last Line: And too thick to drink Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RIFT, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The sun came breaking through the clouds Last Line: As in the long ago Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo %betwen thumb Last Line: Means that christ %had hard hands %too Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ARMY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where 'ave you been this week or more Last Line: Right in the front of the army! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics RIOT'S CLIMBING OF A HILL, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as an angler melancholy standing Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life RISING VENUS, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have it wrong Last Line: Survives, strong and free, %engendering her own destiny Subject(s): Fate; Life RISK MANAGEMENT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: Before they're caught Subject(s): Cities; Conventions; Urban Life RITE, by ELIZABETH EDDY Poem Source First Line: My teenage son was Subject(s): Family Life RITE OF PASSAGE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Firmly fixed on returning once more Last Line: As promised her darlin' louie Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina RITUAL SLAUGHTER, by BINA GOLDFIELD Poem Source First Line: I pretended he was not my father Last Line: The smell of slaughter %in his skin Subject(s): Family Life RIVALS; A PASTORAL, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a meadow bridge, whose arch was dry Last Line: While richard turnd his comrades talk to join %and proudly s neerd to see his foe resign Subject(s): Country Life RIVER, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: Winter %late afternoon Subject(s): Family Life RIVER BIRCH IN NOVEMBER, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: A branch hangs over the chain link fence Last Line: The sea is steel again. Maximum security Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Thanksgiving RIVER HOUSE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Perhaps you needed to leave Last Line: Jump, jump, astonished %they are speaking %out loud. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love RIVER MAN, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I know your enduring love: Last Line: If you row out to the middle, %I will call your name. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love RIVER OXUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And night came down over the solemn waste Subject(s): Country Life RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails ROAD RONDEL, by NICOLE SARROCCO Poem Source First Line: Nothing quite like the force of a near-fatal car crash Last Line: To cement a relationship, that other force, the one that takes life away Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Life; Roads ROAD TO EMMAUS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: All around us, secrets are continually Last Line: The kingdom is here, on the earth Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Truth ROADS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Stonewalls, not knowing how to go Last Line: And scarecrows line his field Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland ROADS WE TRAVEL BUT ONCE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A road runs down through wonder town Last Line: Than roads we travel but once? Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROADSIDE POEMS: AN OLD SERMON WITH A NEW TEXT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife contrived a fleecy thing Last Line: That holdeth fast thy life. Subject(s): Children; Education; Family Life; God; Sermons; Sewing; Childhood; Relatives ROADSIDE POEMS: LITTLE ELFIE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a puppet-jointed child Last Line: Sleep shining through the dark. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Innocence; Childhood; Relatives ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn? Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares ROBERT DESNOS, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I am going to dedicate my life to the writing of Last Line: And begin the search for you %through these dreams Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog stops barking after robinson has gone Last Line: Where trees are actual and take no holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Relatives ROBINSON AT HOME, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains drawn back, the door ajar Last Line: And the long curtains blow into the room Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Disappointment; Relatives ROCK-SOLID WOMEN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Gemma's dead, but her presence srcubs the kitchen Last Line: Please say the grudge isn't all we hold between us Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women ROCKER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Sweeping today as I do every day, Last Line: To be nothing less than beautiful %as a pool of orange fantails. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love ROCKY MOUNTAINS, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Inscrutable Subject(s): Farm Life ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Last Line: To go nowhere at all Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy ROLAND, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Everyone was sure %roland was my pa Last Line: A child had been in bondage %a woman was set free Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ROLL-CALL, by NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Corporal green!' the orderly cried Last Line: "here!" Variant Title(s): Calling The Roll Subject(s): Army Life; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics ROMANCE REKINDLED, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Very good at hellos Last Line: As they launched their own %may day Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: RHAMPSENITUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the king rhampsenitus Last Line: In his reign was quite surprising. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Laughter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE POET FERDUSI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of gold, and men of silver Last Line: That the dead ferdusi bore to his tomb. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 1. THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who has already much Last Line: Have a claim for living in it. Subject(s): Life; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 11. LOST WISHES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Similar in disposition Last Line: That my inmost heart has enter'd. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Peace; Wishes; Optimism ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 15. TO THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is dread thanatos indeed! Last Line: Ye angels, grant matilda your protection! Subject(s): Angels; Life; Marriage; Tears; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 19. THE WILL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that life is nearly spent Last Line: As they in their vileness wallow Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Life; Wills; Heirs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: SPANISH LYRICS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on hubert's day - the year was Last Line: Ask'd: had we enjoy'd our dinner? -- Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: INTRODUCTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let the days of thy life pass not Last Line: But down in the valley. Subject(s): Fortune; Life ROMANTIC SONNET, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives RONDEL: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far have you come, my lady, from the town Last Line: Since I am sworn to live my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Sea; Woods; Ocean ROOM FULL OF USED BABY FURNITURE FOR SALE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scolic scabs have been pried off Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Furniture; Family Life; Relatives ROOM IN THE PAST, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a kitchen. Its curtains fill Subject(s): Family Life ROOTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it our craziness even Last Line: Call it anything Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ROOTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it our craziness even Last Line: Whatever you have to, %call it anything Subject(s): Farm Life ROPE AND DRUM, by ROBERT CURRIE Poem Source First Line: That night in the barn Subject(s): Family Life ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSE & THE THORN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A rose in the garden grew graceful and fair Last Line: A thorn's not a rose nor never will be Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio ROSESUCKER RETABLO: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a drink of lasting rain I may be clean gone Last Line: Unpossessed and unforsaken all the way to the end Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Life; Strength ROUND, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid, Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ROUND TABLE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: A dull, ill-acted comedy is life! Last Line: To work and live, to trust in god and die. Subject(s): Comedy; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy ROUNDUP, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was a bride of just three weeks Last Line: That a roundup's no place for a greenhorn bride %you know - I've never returned Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ROUTE 138, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Near st. Stephens mission Last Line: They reach out to headlights Subject(s): Ranch Life ROUTE MARCHIN', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're marchin' on relief over injia's sunny plains Last Line: "kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?" Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics ROWING, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Early saturdays %father and I argued Subject(s): Family Life ROYAL ASPECTS OF THE EARTH, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alone with natue's breathing things Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life ROYAL LEGACY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Childhood is the kingdom where Last Line: Now denied heirs for their own future kingdoms Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know doc sifers I'll jes' argy, here and now Last Line: Tamam Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Physicians; Sickness; Woods; Doctors; Illness RUDE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so rude to me. Leaves my head Last Line: Telling you the truth of what you long tried to hide Subject(s): Life RUDE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so rude to me. Leaves my head Last Line: Telling you the truth of what you long tried to hide Subject(s): Life RUMINATION, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: Life is like a bonbon plate Last Line: You've lost your appetite Subject(s): Change; Life RUMMAGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growing old in shabby clothes Last Line: Blowing in the wind Subject(s): Life RUMMAGE SALE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: Orange plaid polyester pantsuit Last Line: Rattle in a two-pound folger's can Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RUMOR AT TWILIGHT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rumor at twilight of whisper, crepuscular Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives RUMORS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tornado weather, my mother said, the day Last Line: The candles in case the lights went out Subject(s): Family Life; Fear RUMORS: A FAMILY MATTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dates escape me. At any rate aunt thelma lived on in grief Last Line: Not too late to remember with kindness Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Problems; Rumors RUN THEN THROUGH THIS LITTLE SPACE OF TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: It is ripe, blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew Subject(s): Life Change Events RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips RUNAWAY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The poet tells you Last Line: Carving labyrinths for your escape? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life RUNAWAY SISTER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: No one can stop me! I'm running away!' Last Line: Until your first movie is a box-office success Subject(s): Family Life - India RUNAWAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway and tansy, catnip and fever few Last Line: Growing in a garden with herbs and marigold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 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 RUNOFF, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Watchful mildred, blind eye Last Line: I was hunched against february Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE Poem Text First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest? Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RURAL EVENING, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whip cracks on the plough-team's flank Last Line: And a fiddle scrambling after. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; Landscape; Sunset; Twilight RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RURAL SCENE AT EVENING, VIEWED FROM AFAR, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source First Line: Fall grass fills the bank of the pond Last Line: The stars and moon calmly preside over abundant frost Subject(s): Country Life RURAL SCENES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a man in all my days Last Line: To hearts, whose songs are gathered from the field. Subject(s): Country Life RURAL SPORTS; A GEORGIC INSCRIBED TO MR. POPE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, who the sweets of rural life have known Last Line: And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. Subject(s): Country Life RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: My honda drops Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No city primness train'd our feet Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood RUSTIC WREATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather to yourself both the furies and the fevers, grim dragon Last Line: Gather, gather them boldly to yourself so that - you may die Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: LORD, THOUGH ABSENT, CURES SON OF CENTURION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What unexpected health glides in on silent wings! Last Line: Was the cure, absent and present, it was the cure Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE FLOCK OF CHRIST, THE SHEPHERD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O flolck, o too much blessed in such a great shepherd! Last Line: Himself is shepherd for it, and himself is p[asture for his flock Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE WOMAN WITH FEVER, THE MAN WITH DROPSY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the holy writ read recently [christ] stopped a serious fever Last Line: How well he put down those waters with these fires! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SACRED HEART PROCESSION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: One corpus christi you recall Last Line: And my heart, beating, beating %under all that lace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SACRIFICE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: While xerxes' fleet labored along the coast Last Line: The gods bestow their blessings for a price Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SAD LITTLE BREATHING MACHINE, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under its glass lid, the square Last Line: The present is in there somewhere Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SAD SHEPHERD, SELS., by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life SADDLIN'-UP TIME, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I never looked forward to the end of the day Last Line: Riding drag for the devil to pay for my crimes, %but I'm damned if I'll go 'fore saddlin'-up time Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SADNESS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Sadness, you are a silver locket Last Line: The weather stops stinging, until %I can't get dressed without you. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SAFE AT HOME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! How can I say Last Line: Safe in that beautiful home. Subject(s): Life; Memory SAFE DESPAIR IT IS THAT RAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor is dying double Subject(s): Life; Death; Despair SAGE HEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: To slake her fledglings' thirst Last Line: Because we do not nest Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SAILING SHIP, by JOAN BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: Running his wistful blue eyes along the Subject(s): Country Life SAILOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts are like a brook that always runs Last Line: When tides are always pulling at his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAINT BRIGID'S DAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The pintails rising in straight line Last Line: Is alive again and drinking Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SAINT FRANCIS 1951, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Ten %and the morning saga Last Line: Looks away %and lies Subject(s): Ranch Life SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud / stands for all things Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Agriculture; Farmers SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud %stands for all things Last Line: The long, perfect loveliness of sow Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints SALLIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a young lady from london she came Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SALLY GOODEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I had a piece of pie Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SALMON RIVER BREAKS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There are days of sun and sand and stone Last Line: And on a sunny day you can lay me away %where the eagle and osprey come to pray %in the salmon river Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SALOONS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: I've been known to spend time in barrooms Last Line: Cuz that old bar gal's face just can't be replaced %by the back end of these danged old cows Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SAME AS YOUJ, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I put my pants on one day at a time. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SAME DOOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see you in this scattered company Last Line: It is small comfort to me that you are not alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new! Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians SAMUEL GORTON, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days ago,passing through shawomet Last Line: Quietly as a fox on the ends of my toes Subject(s): Death; Peace; Plantation Life; Preaching And Preachers SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SAN FRANCISCO UNDER FOG, by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS Poem Text First Line: City of my dreams, like pearl the dew Last Line: The city of my dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewys, Georges Subject(s): City & Town Life; San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAN YSIDRO LABRADOR, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request Last Line: This night, and at our death, en paz may we rest Subject(s): Farm Life; Isidore The Laborer (or, Farmer), Saint (1070-1130) SAND FLESH AND SKY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ropes are the roots Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam SANDHILL CRANES, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: We sit on the orange-striped couch Last Line: An open door she passes through Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SANIBEL ISLAND, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lizards crawl the screen again, it's sanibel august Last Line: Upside down, welcomes all gods crfeatures in Subject(s): Sanibel Island, Florida; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Summer; Lizards SAPHRONIA, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Born out of wedlock, she had a son Last Line: She died sitting up in her chair. %her dog shed tears Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life SAPPHO IN LEVKAS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, my father, once again Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth SATIRE: 16, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: What vast prerogatives, my gallus, are Last Line: Sometimes be lowzy, but be never poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Soldiers SATIRE: 3, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Griev'd tho I am, an ancient friend Last Line: And add new venom, when you write of rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Variant Title(s): The Satires Of Juvenal And Persius: The Third Satire Of Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Rome, Italy SATISFACTION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there be permanence in this dizzy being Last Line: The satisfaction of sight. Subject(s): Life SATISFIED, by FAY GOODE HARING Poem Text First Line: As long as I can watch the blue Last Line: And I am satisfied. Subject(s): Life SATURDAY MARCH 6, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning you step out, still in pajamas Last Line: It's on the table and that's what day it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SATURDAYS, by KENNETH C. STEVEN Poem Source First Line: We used to go there for eggs Last Line: On the long bounce home Subject(s): Farm Life SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SATYR'S SERVICE [OR FAREWELL],FR.THE FAITHFUL SHEPERDESS, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou divinest, fairest, brightest Subject(s): Country Life SAVING OF THE LEAVES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Old leaves are precious Last Line: Behind the rake Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAVING THE RAIN IN BARRELS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nights, I rode my father's pickup Last Line: Spiraling for those that stumble %under the sun and fall Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Farm Life; Water SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers SAYING GOODBYE TO MY FATHER, by GILLIAN WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: Today, I am made of tears for you Last Line: The moments will stay %glistening Subject(s): Life Change Events SAYING GRACE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father bowed his head and waited, still Last Line: Thanksgiving was my father, saying grace Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAYING YES TO LIVING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because so many of us have died Last Line: And to pay my bills Subject(s): Life SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SCALING PARNASSUS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Dragonflies whose wings %flutter in sultry air Last Line: And some forgotten kings Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SCARS OF RAPTURE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Shams, I have done everything I know Last Line: And the camels will cry out %in their sleep Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SCENE FROM A DRAMA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daimyo and the courtesan Last Line: Nervously fingering his sword. Subject(s): Japan; Theater & Theaters; Japanese; Stage Life SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: Drifting, the ten tribes there, gone forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Relatives; Shoah; Judaism SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: No longer mine. Littering through my fingers, %drifting, the ten tribes, lost forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCENES FROM WAR: THE NIGHT I LEFT THE AIR FORCE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moving is all we ever do, our daughter cried Last Line: Running lost and screaming in our living room Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Family Life; Moving And Movers SCHOOL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe Last Line: "he said: ""to hoe." Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Meriden Academy, New Hampshire; Agriculture; Farmers SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You see them standing on street corners Last Line: Without care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SCHOOL MEMORIES, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: When I see children go to school Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Must I open the paint-stuck windows Last Line: I count fifty sprites in the dell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness SCHOOLMATE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear to my heart the unforgotten junes Subject(s): Farm Life SCILLA'S METAMORPHOSIS: MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth, late choked with showers Last Line: I sad and pensive wholly. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Melancholy; Dejection SCOTCH AND SUN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home from night shift, my father Last Line: Though I held him in my arms Variant Title(s): The Art Of Tragedy; Scotch And Su Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life; Fathers And Sons; Seashore SCREW-GUNS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool Last Line: But you can't get away from the guns! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SCREWS & HINGES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Unable in their freedom Last Line: Hinged to the obedience %of opening and closing Subject(s): Family Life - India SCULPIN, by ROBERT FARNSWORTH Poem Source First Line: Marie, you get to call your teacher marie?' Last Line: Laugh hurl it down on the concrete, hard Subject(s): Family Life; Fishing And Fishermen SEA, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Now I'll go %to the sea Last Line: Or the pure land Subject(s): Future Life; Prisons And Prisoners; Sea SEA SHELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It took a pell mell storm Last Line: What sculptor carved this curving carapace? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEA-HOARDINGS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is open again and sea flows in Last Line: And how to hope, in the darkest deeps of thinking. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Moon; Sea; Ocean SEALED ORDERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bear sealed orders on life's weltered sea Last Line: Lie, known and very near. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Ocean SEALED RIDERS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Hole in the dark Last Line: I see them, see them, %and burn Subject(s): Army Life; Horseback Riding; Soldiers SEALESS WORLD, by JOAN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: If when I come to paradise Subject(s): Country Life SEARCHERS, by ANNABEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From conner's ridge high above the foggy bottom Last Line: My need to ask him why Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEASONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Dirty snow left in the gullies, pale Last Line: There's still time to sit before the fire, %curse the dead cold outside, %the other empty chair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seawater stiffens cloth long after its dried Last Line: Call her afterward tree, call her seawater angled by silence Subject(s): Life SECLUSION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut out the world, shut in the home! Last Line: Live thine own life, and win the day! Subject(s): Life; Love; Solitude; Tears; Loneliness SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Last Line: But for them the bombers answer everything Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii SECOND HELPING, by DOUG DORPH Poem Source First Line: Since the heart attack, I come up the stairs Last Line: In my extra life, I don't Subject(s): Family Life; Health; Hearts; Sickness SECOND REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AFFLICTION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I study weather: %fingertip, storm Last Line: And sometimes with nothing but frowns Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SECOND SON, by MARGIT MOORE Poem Source First Line: You are the one who looks like me Subject(s): Family Life SECOND-BEST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder's brown daughter Last Line: In this charged world: - write and be quiet Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Life Modern SECRET, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Don't tell your mother!' Last Line: Until now never revealed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SECRET, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I carry it around %like a flower Last Line: Let someone else bear this cargo of love Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who writ this, not without pains and thought Last Line: Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists SECRET OF LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Even Last Line: To the stratosphere, madagascar, %who knows where Subject(s): Life SECRET WRITING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the outward world about us Last Line: Of the spirit comes to light. Subject(s): Family Life; Writing & Writers SECRETS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some secrets of the winter woods Last Line: To those who see - and want to know Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEDENTARY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I live in a corner of the highest story Last Line: Offered for my enjoyment and my recreation Subject(s): Day; Life SEEING A NEW SISTER, by E. ALMA FLAGG Poem Source First Line: Baby sister doesn't know Last Line: They say she's here for keeps Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life SEEKERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Each of us is searching for Last Line: What will we do if we are brushed %by this lion's mane? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEEMING FAILURE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wave upon the strand Last Line: "alone was sacrificed." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life SEERS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly it springs forth Last Line: The space where a crow once hunched and waited Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Age Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Ag Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SEGREGATION #1, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: I, my mother, my two brothers Last Line: In tiny mini pieces Subject(s): Family Life; Peru; Primitive Man SEIZURE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the winter mother told time by my heart Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SELF AND LIFE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Changeful comrade, life of mine Last Line: Life is justified by love. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Experience; Life; Love; Self SELF CONTROL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy triumph; one that shines afar Last Line: Its rule assert, sublime in self-control. Subject(s): Life; Self-control; Virtue SELF-PORTRAIT, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in her living room Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life; Relatives SELF-PORTRAIT, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Father was a serf, seldom came home at night Last Line: Like a sick dog with his tongue hanging out %in the sun and in the shade Subject(s): Family Life; Self SELF-PORTRAIT OF AN OTHER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It is late in th eyear, he is alone on the sheltered beach in the small bay... Last Line: Silent again. Only then did everything become silent Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Self SELF-REJECTED, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plow not nor plant this arid mound Last Line: Spare your trouble. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SELF-STORAGE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doesn't that feel great? Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Family Life; Relatives SELIMUS: KINGS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my lords, until I call you / forth Last Line: That thinks a sceptre is a pleasant thing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes SELIMUS: SOLILOQUY OF SELIMUS, USURPER AND TYRANT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, selimus, consider who thou art Last Line: Unless old bajazet do die the death. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dictators SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SEMELE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of light divine! Last Line: Then, clay, in fire depart! Then, soul, in heaven survive! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SENSE AND SPIRIT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The senses loving earth or well or ill Last Line: To read her own and trust her down to death. Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Theology SENSE OF INFINITE PASSAGE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I have always been struck Last Line: The endless field of cobalt %which lies ahead Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives SENTENCINGS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing too perfect to be remembered Last Line: Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment SEPARATE ROOMS, by DAVID E. JOYNER Poem Source First Line: We started out with king size Last Line: Begging us for separate rooms Subject(s): Family Life; Rooms SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SEPARATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till death do us part Last Line: Until death us do wed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SEPTEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fox grapes hang purple on the hillside vines Last Line: This is the rich fulfillment of a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEPTEMBER DREAM, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: It was on a september eve Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SEQUOIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tree was ancient when the fishermen Last Line: Upon earth's oldest living monument Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SERAPHIM IN WINTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It was winter Last Line: Of what is rooted, %what pauses and flees Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SERENADE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singing in my heart Last Line: Is my song's only word. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quiet Life; Serenity SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: A half a dozen major wars, %and forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dime %in the slot Last Line: And who knows at what price? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking SESTINA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September rain falls on the house Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SESTINA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September rain falls on the house Last Line: The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove %and the child draws another inscrutable house Subject(s): Family Life SET OF MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The archeress had gone Last Line: The city of the gods that never sleep. Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cities; Moon; Urban Life SETTING SAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exultation is the going Last Line: Of the first league out from land? Subject(s): Life; Time SETTING THE WORLD RIGHT, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Meeting in truckee with the Last Line: Later, my wife would call our %get-together male bonding Subject(s): Earth; Life SEVEN, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: 1. I've come to visit father; he is like walking through snow Last Line: Clean the basement, packing the china, the silverware, the pho- %tographs. Night enters, and we stri Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SEVEN POEMS OF LAMENT: 003, by WANG TS'AN Poem Source First Line: This frontier post brings me sorrow Last Line: Coming and going they question no more Subject(s): Army Life SEVEN STREAMS OF NEVIS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack the blindman, whose violin Last Line: In the heart's hell you have it; call it love Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Human Behavior; Sin; Love; Suicide SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no dew left on the daisies and clover Last Line: I am seven times one to-day. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Children; Death; Flowers; Life; Childhood; Dead, The SEVENS (VERSION 3): IN THE CLOSED IRIS OF CREATION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of heavy scissors lay across the sky Last Line: Began to sever us Subject(s): Creation; Humanity; Life; Perception SEVENTEEN PROMISES, by BRENNEN T. LUKAS Poem Source First Line: I will keep writing for as long as Last Line: Be quiet as a page turning Subject(s): Life SEVENTH DAY, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: It's in paris or jerusalem or somewhere in a dreamt Last Line: O my interior brothers... Subject(s): Family Life SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks SEVENTY YEARS ARE FEW, by LU CHIH Poem Source First Line: I think a man's seventy years are few! Last Line: What's better than %to be happy and at ease? Subject(s): Life; Time SEVIRE DEO REGNARE EST, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the things I sigh'd for so, before? Last Line: But those who serve our common sovereign. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SEWING CIRCLE, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Use the long curving needle Last Line: Strands of bloody wool in the catch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sewing SEWING LESSONS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I can still feel the dig Last Line: As he blessed us from the top %of the class Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SHADE OF THE WOODS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I yearn with the weariness of my life, laid waste and lost in the woods Last Line: I say it. Joy doth brood for me in the tufted wood that by no path is crossed. Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Life; Supernatural; Woods SHADOW OF LIFE, DEATH, AND ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow moving by one's side Last Line: That rolls in majesty for ever %such is eternity Variant Title(s): Life, Death, And Eternit Subject(s): Faith; Future Life SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesnt know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends Last Line: It takes some getting used to Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life SHADOWED SOULS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died indeed, but to him her breath Last Line: "the soul thou didst thy most to have slain." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Life; Silence; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness SHADOWS, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: Whatever the lord gave you Last Line: Out of our mistakes Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Parents SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare's flower? %the wild rose Subject(s): Country Life SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boston papers say Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SHAMAN/BEAR, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: He sniffs the autumn air Subject(s): Family Life; History SHAMBHALA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This is a place that has no place Last Line: Who goes there cannot tell the way Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I on the palos verdes cliff Last Line: How beautiful are both these nothings Subject(s): Life; Death; Beauty; Dead, The SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SHARECROPPER, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Source First Line: This was his life - overalls, cotton, sweat Subject(s): Farm Life SHARING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My flower bed grows more than weeds and Last Line: I thought I lived here all alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise SHE COMES INTO THE BARN TO SAY HELLO, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: I tell her, bacon, coffee, juice, four eggs Subject(s): Farm Life SHE FILLS THE DAY WITH A THOUSAND TINY THINGS, by MOLLY TENENBAUM Poem Source First Line: And if one is too big Last Line: Corners and intricate %seams are sealed Subject(s): Day; Life SHE IS NOT FASHIONED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is not fashioned to command Last Line: Ordained to bless this world below. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Saints; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I will wear purple bonnets Last Line: Tell me any foolish thing! Subject(s): Hats; Life; Old Age; Youth SHE PONDERS THE CHOICE OF A WAY OF LIFE BINDING UNTIL DEATH, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If men weighed the hazards of the sea Last Line: He'd stop at nothing, would not meekly choose %a way of life binding a whole life through Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Life; Love SHEDDING THE VESTMENTS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was inside her for the first time Last Line: Everyone who's following me %go to hell Subject(s): Life; Sin SHEEP CHILD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Last Line: Themselves, they marry, they raise their kind Subject(s): Farm Life SHEEPRANCHER NAMED JOHN, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: A swarming %orange as bees into hair, a face Last Line: Shy penis, mostly %swirled white Subject(s): Farm Life SHEKEL IN THE FISH'S MOUTH, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck had peter! For he took a fish Last Line: That stored his purse, as well as filled his dish Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year Last Line: How far it would carry you Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women SHELVES ON THE CLARK FORK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you're restless Last Line: And across these stones. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SHEP'S LAST STAND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A flyblown german shepherd Last Line: Swarmed over the slats Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SHEPHEARDS CONTENT, SELS., by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sits all day lowd-piping on a hill Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERD'S GARLAND, SELS., by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERD'S MADRIGAL, by GERALDINE FARRAR Poem Source First Line: Come, little children, gather round Last Line: The holy child in bethlehem %his birthday shares with you Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SHEPHERD'S SORROW, BEING DISDAINED IN LOVE, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muses, help me; sorrow swarmeth Last Line: How neglect my joys have daunted Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERD'S SWAIN, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that at a blush can tell Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERDESS, by FRANCO SACCHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mountain shepherdess, young and fair! Last Line: And follow where they led me, everywhere Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERDESSES' GARLANDS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy scatter'd on each mead and down Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life SHIELDED, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: From the strong threads of a hundred voices Last Line: Or blinded by death. Subject(s): Life; Poetry & Poets SHINING FOR JESUS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, do you shine for jesus Last Line: Ever any less in him? Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life SHIPWRECK, NEW MEXICO, by CYNTHIA J. HARPER Poem Source First Line: It's hard to be a cowboy's kid Last Line: Just hush, there can't be an %answer for everything Subject(s): New Mexico; Ranch Life SHOOTING STAR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a concussion / the mind severs the pain Last Line: Shooting star. Subject(s): Calligraphy; Life; Violence SHOPPING WITH AKHMATOVA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Life's work you say, %the essence of myself? Last Line: Eat the peaches, %we're only shopping Subject(s): Family Life - India SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need? Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives SHORT ODE TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground, Subject(s): Morningside Heights, New York City; City & Town Life SHORT STORY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather killed a mule with a hammer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SHORT STORY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather killed a mule with a hammer Last Line: And only a few of us are left %who ever heard that story Subject(s): Farm Life SHORT YEARS, SELS., by PAAVO HAAVIKKO Poem Source First Line: The one who writes us is now doing four plays a year Last Line: After writing, the most difficult thing is reading Subject(s): Life, Modern SHORTHORN, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: Rupert walpole, late of london Last Line: It measured about six by three %in boot hill desert sand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SHOVEL PEOPLE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It happened by accident: I was in the middle Last Line: And I dreamed about how life would be, could be, with %the s Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Labor And Laborers; Shovels SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHUTTLE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is making stuffing for the turkey Last Line: As he watches the snow fall and fall. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life SHYLOCK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the court he locked the door and sat Subject(s): Hate; Despair; Conduct Of Life SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps Last Line: But not that I was here, that he was lonely Subject(s): Farm Life; Solitude; Agriculture; Farmers SIBYL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Everything on this journey %is fortuitous, unplanned Last Line: The not being able to tell Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SIC VITA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart free, hand free Last Line: Beauty, beauty, beauty! Subject(s): Life SIC VITA, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, -- and man forgot! Variant Title(s): Life;of Human Life;such Is Life Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind; Mortality; Transience; Dead, The; Human Race; Impermanence SIC VITA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a parcel of vain strivings tied Last Line: While I droop here. Subject(s): Life SICUT IN PRINCIPIO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pentecostal breath Last Line: All life is satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life SIDNEY LANIER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was aware of unheard symphonies Last Line: He writes the lyric for some deathless score Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SIETE ROBLES, by THERESA M. MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: Beyond a mountain trail Last Line: Than health, and these. Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While norman tancred in salerno reigned Last Line: And on their monument inscrib'd their fate. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Tyranny & Tyrants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Allegories; Dictators SIGNLAND, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cicadas tear the tear to flitters Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The SILENCE, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past parentage or gender Last Line: (george fox %was one) %great openings Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SILENCE, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: Out into the afternoon Last Line: Whom silence made forever one. Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World SILENCE, by ? LYNCH Poem Text First Line: In silence mighty things are wrought Last Line: Is strengthened silently. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENCE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Silence walks through the city Last Line: How beautiful she was. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENT LOVE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Thou never said thou loved me - never Last Line: Deceive the world, and act a part Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, by STEPHEN TODD BOOKER Poem Source First Line: No opposition mounted against it, no Last Line: Dear anger ..., am I your master or your chump? Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Life SIMPLE GIFTS,' A SHAKER HYMN, by ANN+(2) LEE Poem Source First Line: Tis the gift to be simple Last Line: Twill be in the valley of love and desire Subject(s): Shaker Hymn; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Last Line: In a form we have no words for, and you live on it Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth SIMPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must set a shape in air Last Line: That I am. Subject(s): Life; Men SINCE NELLIE GOT THE HOOK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A cloud of sorrow darks the house Last Line: (chorus) Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness SINCE NINEVEH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The levelled cities sowed with salt Last Line: And hear again the ancient, why? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SINCE THEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in search of revival Last Line: What I am left to do Subject(s): Past; Conduct Of Life SINCE THERE IS NO ESCAPE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there is no escape, since at the end Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Mortality SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And her kind eyes shall lead me to the end Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Love; God SINFONIETTA: 1.AN OAK IN AMHERST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her attic -- like a bark Last Line: Doubtless a lightning stroke Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 2.DA TROWIE BURN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: My kinsman, aly bain Last Line: My forebears left behind Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 3.THE HATCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Over the sodden ditches Last Line: And offspring of the storm Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 4.A LOVE OF KIND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Scribblers to be rid of Last Line: When I dispense with love: %anacreon, ronsard Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SING, YE TRENCHES!, by HELEN COALE CREW Poem Text First Line: Sing, ye trenches bloody-lipped! Last Line: Paean shout for lycidas! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnie and mattie Last Line: And fat little may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms Last Line: Now you have to make %your own story Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing And Singers SINGING, THE WHILE YOU WORK, by GLADYS RAY SNAKENBERG Poem Source First Line: My faith looks up to thee,' your clear Subject(s): Farm Life SINGLE TREE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Not so much time itself Last Line: Of all that continues %unabated in this world Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SIR EUSTACE GREY (SEE CRABBE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, oh lay me low Last Line: Death is immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Death; Fear; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SIR GUY THE CRUSADER, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir guy was a doughty crusader Last Line: Grew bulky and quitted the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Crusades; Family Life; Knights & Knighthood; Relatives SIR OLAVE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of the cathedral Last Line: "we plighted our vows of love tender." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Life; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SISTER, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: The street is a foreign country. Last Line: She shuts her eyes about the world Subject(s): Family Life SISTER FOR MY FATHER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: I try to imagine a sister for my father Last Line: Her back bent at the sink, her knife %poised on the fruit Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE TO .. ANATOMRY CLASS: HEARTBEAT AND MASS ..., by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For every moment of light we win Last Line: Long and short enough to fit the crime Subject(s): Life SISTERS, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: One whine shy of a forced march Last Line: I'm going to name her cream puff Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SISTERS, by NANCY G. WESTERFIELD Poem Source First Line: The youngest, who would grow up delinquent Last Line: Spurs, lassoing them in ropes of her red hair Subject(s): Life; Sisters SISTERS, COUSINS, AND WAYWARD ANGELS, by DAVID TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: My sister and I dwell in the lost Last Line: Clipped from baby angels %culled at birth Subject(s): Angels; Family Life SISTREN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I sit in the living room Last Line: Like diamonds in your eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Women SIT DOWN, OLD SIR, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Country bus to yung hsu and to nan chong Last Line: Old enough to be pitied by an angel from heaven' Subject(s): Family Life - China SIX WAYS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Business Last Line: Comes so quickly it seems all one sound Subject(s): Life SIXTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS CONCLUSION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Listen, providence: %deliver me Last Line: (are there wounds? I cannot say Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SKATING POND, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, a fire. Father would bring the wood and stack it Last Line: And seen the story of a joy no cbild, n o man, could ever repeat Subject(s): Farm Life; Skating & Skaters SKETCH, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was as dark and slim as a polynesian girl Last Line: How to be cut apart and always come back whole Subject(s): Forests; Grandparents; Life SKETCH OF THE FRONTIER WOMAN, by CARMEN BRANNON BEERS Poem Source First Line: Standing erect in the mire Last Line: Which is less than beauty Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Paintings And Painters; Women SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point Last Line: You Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life SKINNY, SKINNY, OF COURSE SKINNY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: What does this forearm of a country girl look like Last Line: A bottle of old wine costs 25,000 renmin bi' Subject(s): Family Life - China SKIP TO MY LOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My sweetheart is gone, what shall I do Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SKY, FENCE, FIELDS, by ALEXANDRA BURACK Poem Source First Line: He'd used his life well, mostly low to the crops Last Line: Than he'd ever thought a farm could go Subject(s): Farm Life SKY-HIGH HOUSES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The sky-high houses wonder if they are gods Last Line: Shall we give them the sun, %or blow out the stars? Subject(s): Future Life; Sky; Stars SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SLAUGHTER STREET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time years ago a man tried to sell Subject(s): Children; Abandonment; City & Town Life; Childhood; Desertion SLAVES, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, planter, let humanity prevail.- / perhaps the negro, in his native land Last Line: The blacks should cultivate the cane-land isles. Subject(s): African Americans; Oppression; Plantation Life; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: One night %dark and quiet Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SLEEPING IN THE AUTUMN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Perhaps after so many years Last Line: I'd hug your empty pillow like a back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SLEEPLESS GRAFFITI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Insomnia; Sleeplessness SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Words chase each other through my mind Last Line: Then I get back to sleep again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SLOW WAKER, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look at the cousin Last Line: And get in nobody's way Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Family Life SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I frequently slowly wish for more of the sudden experience Last Line: We get music which is time moving loudly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time SLUMS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slow day burns across the rubble dial Subject(s): Slums; City & Town Life; Tenements SMALL BOY SLEEPING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is a breathless moment in the night Last Line: For boys who sleep unguarded in the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SMALL COUNTRIES, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In defense of whatever happens next, the navy of flat-bottomed Last Line: Dark rush across the prairie towards him and over him Subject(s): Country Life SMALL DEFEATS: BID ON BEHALF OF MY AUNT EVA, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: The chaplain left, dissatisfied Last Line: Paw the dry bones of your jewelry Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Memory SMALL DEFEATS: GENEALOGICAL DESIGN, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: I have this aunt, a woman gray and prim Last Line: But still, we live in this - however prim Subject(s): Family Life SMALL DEFEATS: SMALL DEFEATS, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: My small defeats, those largely miniscule Last Line: Certain of whatever death I may find Subject(s): Death; Life SMALL FARMER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yessum, I'm a farmer Subject(s): Farm Life SMALL PHILOSOPHICAL POEM, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dr animus, whose philosophy is a table Last Line: She fills the room with love. And fear. And fear Subject(s): Tables; Family Life SMALL SONG FOR DADDY, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't like my daughter Last Line: Of her particular song Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Family Life SMALL TOWN DYING, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Finch's fine furniture Last Line: Cheap fodder for the forgotten Subject(s): Ranch Life SMALL TOWN LOVE STORY, by PAMELA BURDAK Poem Source First Line: Small owls in barns take up space Last Line: Of water that was suppose to turn the stone Subject(s): Farm Life; Love SMELL OF SAGE, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Autumns ago, we rode bareback for sage, Last Line: Of sage reached us, seeping through our differences, %tying a loose, but lasting, common bond. Variant Title(s): Smell Of Sav Subject(s): Ranch Life SMOKE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young and the moneyed have blown Last Line: To be smoke floating up to the stars Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoke SMOKE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Family Life; Smoke; Relatives SMOKE CLAD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: All of us have been stunned enough Last Line: Bodies clothed only in ashes and tint Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SMOKE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smokehouse smelled of hickory chips Last Line: The smokehouse flavor, fresh upon his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SMOKING IN AN OPEN GRAVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bury ourselves to get high Last Line: So much of us already geared for the journey. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Urban Life; Dead, The; Work; Workers SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED, by RALPH ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Was this small plant for thee cut down? Last Line: Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Subject(s): Life; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SNAGTOOTH SAL, by LOWELL OTUS REESE Poem Text First Line: I was young and happy and my heart was light Last Line: Walkin' down through laramie with snagtooth sal. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States SNAKE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of october %I found on the floor of the woods Last Line: Big with a death to nourish him %during a long sleep Subject(s): Farm Life SNAKES, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was 6 and Last Line: From the massachusetts review Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Telephones; Childhood; Relatives SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SNOW STORM, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Steadily, patiently, persistently came Last Line: He rules all around him - wrapped in mystery Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house... Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SNUFFING ZONE, by ANTHONY BARNES Poem Source First Line: Somewhere there is a driver Last Line: And, dying, reveal another mystery Subject(s): Life Change Events SNUG, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: A lucky girl I am Last Line: On this first day of february Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SO DEEP WAS THEIR LOVE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: This is the story of li po and his lover. Last Line: Speaking, and he walked down %to meet it, so deep was his love. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SO FAR AFIELD, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I am all apple tree, %you are all pine. Last Line: Find the far field, %the lone stand of shocks, %where my love %lies now in wait. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And you, contemporary america Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life SO FAR, SO NEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, so far, we grope to grasp thee Last Line: Silence only may adore thee! Subject(s): God; Life; Religion; Soul; Theology SO HELP ME GOD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pudgy and white, the prez poses in blue swim trunks Last Line: On my honor (which I may not have, but do -- trust me, %and your heart, if you still hear it) swear Subject(s): Life; Mercy SO I BEGAN MY WALK OF LIFE; NO STOP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of spirits reach me: is it so with you? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SO I BLOW SMOKE IN HER FACE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In the morning I race lii'litsoi across the open plain near the windmill. The Last Line: Feels good. My horse is strong and happily we make the climb up the %chooshgai Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Horseback Riding; Native Americans - Reservations; New Mexico SO MANY DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF TIME, by BRIAN PATTEN Poem Source First Line: How long does a man live, after all? Last Line: A man lives so many different lengths of time Subject(s): Life Change Events SO MUCH TO LEARN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much to learn! Old nature's ways Last Line: So brief the time, so much to learn! Subject(s): Learning; Life; Nature; Soul; Wisdom SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A different bell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Opportunity SO WHAT IS LOVE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So what is love? If thou wouldst know Last Line: Love never dies at all Subject(s): Life Change Events SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, / and all of these millions Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, %and all of these millions Last Line: The strange reflected light %of a dead moon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO YOUR THINKING OF HAVING A BABY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: With the first flutter at your ribs Last Line: Overhead, not taken alone. Comes now %your wish on the wind for it never to end. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SOAP, by SHARON SMITH-KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: My life is a series of tragedies and comedies Last Line: My life is a soap opera %starring me Subject(s): Life SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live our lives of human passions, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOLD OUT, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The worst will come tomorrow Last Line: Leabing on the weathered poles %while shadows consume the pasture Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SOLD YOUR SADDLE, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Not so terribly well, I said, in answer to his question Last Line: I'm not sayin' you sold your saddle, but you've put it up for sale Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER (T.P.), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Last Line: As the leaf chars or is kindled; as the bough burns Subject(s): Army Life; War SOLDIER BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I volunteered to texas Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SOLDIER SONG (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-a-all we do is sign the pa-a-ay roll Last Line: And we never get a god damn cent Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER SONG (6), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there's a long, long trace awinding" Last Line: "she's goin' to rock, by heck" Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER'S RETURN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pretty fair maid was in the garden Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SOLEMN LONG ENDURING PASSION, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me Subject(s): Country Life SOLI CANTARE PERITI ARCADES, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I would live in a dairy Last Line: Or, haply, marjorie. Subject(s): Country Life SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists SOLITAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SOLITARY POND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiement Subject(s): Farm Life SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but lived when music-loving pan Last Line: And seek through thee acquaintanceship with god. Subject(s): Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Solitude; Soul; Loneliness SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SOLSTICE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The fat sun has stalled in the sky Last Line: And far off as a wedding night Subject(s): Farm Life SOME ASHES DRIFTING ABOVE PIEDRA, CALIFORNIA, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is still one field I can love Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOME ASHES DRIFTING ABOVE PIEDRA, CALIFORNIA, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is still one field I can love Last Line: Easily away, without comment, %on the wind Subject(s): Farm Life SOME BODIES ARE LIKE FLOWERS, by LUIS CERNUDA Poem Source Last Line: Are not worth a willing love Subject(s): Bodies; Emotions; Hearts; Life SOME DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pathway thou art walking now Last Line: Again to thee -- some day. Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SOME DAYS RETIRED FROM THE REST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or was obliged to die Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what happens to grass Last Line: But then growing still again Subject(s): Farm Life SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time SOME LIFE FLOW ARE INFINITE, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Halting anxiety, dividing solitude Subject(s): Life SOME OLD ONES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Some old ones talk about Last Line: Talk about: brothers %and %sisters Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SOME ONE ELSE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live my life over? I would rather not Last Line: And were I you, I might improve on yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Errors; Experience; Life; Mistakes; Fallacies SOME PEOPLE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Don't exist, %some people do Subject(s): Life SOME PEOPLE ARE BOUND TO DIE YOUNG, by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Poem Source Last Line: If s/he burns brightly before s/he dies h-- light shines for all time Subject(s): Life Change Events SOME SCIENCE FICTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chance is the remotest Last Line: But isnt because of an isthmus Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOME WOULD GO DOWN BY THE SUNLIT SEA, by WILL LAWSON Poem Source Last Line: But I would go out with the winds that race away, away, away! Subject(s): Life Change Events SOMEBODY'LL HAV' TO SHOOT YA DOWN', by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charlie parker running a tow-line / from a red barge Last Line: That is beyond the grave like a great granite keep. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Family Life; Life Change Events; Loss; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Peace; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Relatives SOMEBODY'S ELSE'S CHILD, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: When you borrow money Subject(s): Family Life SOMEHOW, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: The north lancashire ballet group is coming Last Line: Write soon, tell us your news, love to amanda Subject(s): Country Life SOMEONE ELSE'S SUGARCANE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: The one who walks and plants Last Line: To be pressed in the living grave Subject(s): Farm Life SOMERSAULT, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A somersault was prone to sign Last Line: We're all just grains of sault %turned out %from his great somershaker Subject(s): Creation; Life SOMERSET DAM FOR SUPPER, by JOHN HOLMES (1904-1962) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She tells us an interminable story, from television Last Line: I'm the father, and at fifty-six I know more, thar's all Subject(s): Family Life SOMETHING ELSE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Whatever it is hangs over us Last Line: And something else we can't fully recall Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: But spes alii agricolam tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: Hope may not nourish a cow or horse, %but spes alit agriculam 'tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Before he retired from Last Line: Big to spice up his life Subject(s): Life SOMETHING SO OBVIOUS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Forward is not the only way Last Line: Back and forth on one road %throughout our lives Subject(s): Life; Prisons And Prisoners SOMETIMES BEES SPEND THE NIGHT AWAY FROM HOME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes bees spend the night away from home Last Line: To the hidden home hive? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SOMETIMES IN WINTER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look into Subject(s): Envy; Conduct Of Life SOMETIMES WHILE I AM CHANTING', by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There is no I only you only %light burning and unburnt Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life SOMETIMES, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes things don't go, after all Subject(s): Life Change Events SOMETIMES, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes things don't go, after all Last Line: That seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you Subject(s): Life Change Events SOMETIMES, YOU STARS, I THINK YOU DO US ILL, by H. J. Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You lean on a wire fence, looking across Last Line: That settles down around you like the dust Subject(s): Farm Life SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Hope; Luck; Optimism SON, by LILIAN BOWES-LYON Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged farm-labourer lived here Last Line: The man looks bent; yet neither girds at god, %remembering it was beautiful while it lasted Subject(s): Farm Life; War SON OF MAN, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He often spoke of thing of home Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving Last Line: By the light of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Those rivers run from that land Subject(s): Life SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First the fine, faint, dreamy motion Last Line: This is love, the thorn. Subject(s): Life; Love SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wait but a little while Last Line: Though yet ungrown. Subject(s): Life; Love SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This peach is pink Last Line: My sweetheart keeps a warmer white. Subject(s): Life; Love SONG, by BERNIECE GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Love is life / things that follow Last Line: Love will keep as his own. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONG, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shephard loveth thow me vell Last Line: Like to thee, faire cruell may Variant Title(s): Song Of Passera Subject(s): Country Life SONG, by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE Poem Text First Line: Three score and ten by common calculation Last Line: You've reached four-score, but haven't lived a day! Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Time SONG, by BEATRICE ROSENTHAL Poem Text First Line: Ah me! How slow the sad years pass Last Line: "between the quick and the dead." Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Last night the seeking wind sang Subject(s): Farm Life SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: No toil so harsh but comes at length to rest Subject(s): Farm Life SONG, by REBECCA TURNER Poem Source First Line: I'm glad my eyes may see the sun Subject(s): Farm Life SONG, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Give me one heart that's wholly true Last Line: Tis only just a name Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONG (1), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I have the fore %head Last Line: Has that russian %jewish %bump. %jump Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG (2), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am of the earth and the earth is of me Last Line: We are together: sisters Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SONG (2), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the clouds that are so light Last Line: Without which it were not Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence; Army Life SONG AGAINST SPEED, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of speed the savour and the sting Subject(s): Country Life SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG FOR A SUMMER'S DAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fen and farmland walking Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Walking SONG FOR DANIEL, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: If you stay, the earth will stand Last Line: My arms, come rest there, long and long, %my sweet blue wings. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SONG FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am older now Last Line: Or the snow a sheltering wing? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONG FOR MY LITTLE FRIENDS, by LEONARD ADAME Poem Source First Line: My inquisitive little brown children Last Line: What I feel about you, my little friends Subject(s): Family Life SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate Last Line: Who by thine own words only bid thee hail, and live. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Life; Love; Memory; Roses; Dead, The SONG FOR THE GOVERNOR OF WILD GOOSE BARRIER, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: Black clouds weigh down on the walls Last Line: And we take in hand the jade dragon-swords %and die now for our lord Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, the great explorer Last Line: At death's gate! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Song From An Unfinished Play Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Optimism SONG FROM THE DAY THE PUMP BROKE, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: We fought the water pipes all day Last Line: I love you, and I always will, my dear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather Last Line: No more -- no more.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF ENVY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the chilly landscape goes the fat and drowsy bear Last Line: No income tax, no ration books, no war communiques! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONG OF SOCIAL DESPAIR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethics without faith, excuse me Last Line: Inevitably on the wrong side looking out. Subject(s): Faith; Family Life; Morality; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Ethics SONG OF SOLOMON: THE SEASONS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away Last Line: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away Subject(s): Country Life SONG OF SUMMER, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now summer's tones are rich and soft Subject(s): Farm Life SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms SONG OF THE BORDER, by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: Frontier geese fly high Last Line: He cries as he waters his horse Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SONG OF THE BUILDERS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a summer morning Subject(s): Crickets; Conduct Of Life SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For miles along the sunlit lands Last Line: Again we grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Happiness; Life; Sea; World; Joy; Delight; Ocean SONG OF THE DAWN, by MARGARET ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Dawn of the morning, a faint crimson hue Last Line: As each contributes to nature's song! Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE GOING AWAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, upon the green hill-side Last Line: "when he crieth, ""awake!""'" Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Peace; Singing & Singers; Parting; Songs SONG OF THE LUNG-HSI, by CH'EN TAO Poem Source First Line: They swore to wipe out the nomads, no thought for themselves Last Line: To those who dream in spring chambers, they are still men! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SONG OF THE OPEN, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: There's a whisper in the orchard, there's a laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature SONG OF THE OPEN COUNTRY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lights are low, and the day has died Last Line: That I am living right here in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Country Life SONG OF THE OPEN LAND, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We of the open country Last Line: Hail, from the open land! Variant Title(s): Song Of The Open Road Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF THE SCUTTLE (AFTER EUGENE FIELD), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, ye who are fond of music Last Line: The rattle of coal in the scuttle that mom drags up the stairs. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Family Life; Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Relatives SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SQUATTER, by ROBERT LOWE Poem Text First Line: The commissioner bet me a pony - I won Last Line: Anything that you please, but graze lands of the crown! Alternate Author Name(s): Sherbrooke, Viscount Subject(s): Australia; Ranch Life SONG ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY EARLY IN SPRING, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: While joy re-animates the fields Last Line: O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower. Subject(s): Country Life; Farewell; Parting SONG THAT ONLY COULD BE SUNG ONCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Variable, changeable, yes, there are days when Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 103, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to live at rest Last Line: That I have lak'd so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Women; Belief; Creed SONG: 106, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone musing / remember Last Line: From her never to depart? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONG: 111, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth again Last Line: She shall my heart obtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 16, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cause accord or to agree Last Line: That are impossible. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will Last Line: For I am gone for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs SONG: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught Last Line: This restless life I may not lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, what it is to love! Last Line: Who now doth slander love, &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 87 Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 61, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As power and wit will me assist Last Line: Even as ye list. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Truth; Joy; Delight SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first mine eyes did view and mark Last Line: Or else thy heart had been as mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Life SONG: 81, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SONG: 91, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have ever thought Last Line: To draw better the next. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG; ALTERCATION BETWEEN HEART V CONSCIENCE: GENTLE ANNA, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I had a home of beauty Last Line: For gentle annie sleeps beneath the weeping willow tree! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONG; ALTERCATION BETWEEN HEART V CONSCIENCE: HEART, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Come conscience let us now converse Last Line: The enemies of temperance Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONG; SEQUEL TO THE GYPSY'S WARNING, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: He has promised - I have listened Last Line: I had never been betrayed Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course there's a tree to listen to Last Line: And that is a thousand pities. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sound; Bedtime SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 5. NOEL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To awake at dawn and remember new-dropt lambs Last Line: "o lamb which takest away the sin of the world." Subject(s): Christmas; Fear; Life; Religion; Sleep; Nativity, The; Theology SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 6. WARM DAYS IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When warm days come in the middle of winter Last Line: And you dream of a faun's, or wood-nymph's, fife. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Winter; Nightmares SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 8. THINGS AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is at twilight mostly that things want words Last Line: And as for clouds, who knows so much of passing? Subject(s): Evening; Life; Stars; Trees; Sunset; Twilight SONGS FROM SAPPHO AND PHAON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's spirit moved upon Last Line: From pure, soft gold of old? Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Religion SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small throaty soprano Subject(s): Family Life SONGS OF LOVE AND YOUTH: PROLOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Even as one who finds his face Last Line: But ever battling upwards,—battling towards the light. Subject(s): Family Life; Hearts; Love; Mothers; Youth; Relatives SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 1. AT THE THEATRE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes are set upon the dancing-girls before thee Last Line: Thou dost intoxicate both head and heart. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glory on the chamber wall! Last Line: Leads back to golden morn. Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE FIRST WATCH. TIRED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I would tell you more, but I am tired Last Line: O, I am tired! Subject(s): Life; Light; Love; Night; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue SONGS OF THE NORTH: 1. THE WEAVER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her loom is bone Last Line: She weaves, unravels %and weaves again Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 2. THE BARRENS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The snowy owl %swoops on a vole Last Line: Has emptied the north Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 3. THREE FOXES, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The red fox sleeps in the woods Last Line: And sleeps in the snows Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 4. GRONLAND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The last ship sails Last Line: Breed in the lemming years Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 5. MAN OF THE NORTH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am a wall of rock Last Line: With all hands drowned Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 46, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through what strange garden ran Last Line: Once and no more. Subject(s): Life SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 68, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land lies full, from brim to brim Last Line: Wash like the dirging sea. Subject(s): Life; Love Nature Of SONGS OF TRAVEL: 10, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how it is with you Last Line: And every bramble dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Love SONGS OF TRAVEL: 2. YOUTH AND LOVE: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once only by the garden gate Last Line: For god to plough them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Love; Youth SONGS OUT OF SORROW: LESSONS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless I learn to ask no help Last Line: Why was I ever given birth? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Conduct Of Life SONGS TO A.H.R.: 10. ASSUAGEMENT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How close tonight the whippoorwill Last Line: But love's star-builded roof. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Moon; Whipporwills SONGS TO A.H.R.: 3. WHEN THE WIND IS LOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind is low, and the sea is soft Last Line: But you are eternity. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Wind; Ocean SONGS TO HOLY MARY, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O splendid jewel, serenely infused with the sun! Last Line: And his inner power appear like a face from his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONNET, by MARJORIE GOODBURNE Poem Source First Line: See how your world of men can fail its sons Subject(s): Farm Life SONNET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sashay with shakespeare. Scribblers can cavort Last Line: Your words are fresh with an immortal dew Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be so with us, that in the dark Last Line: It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. %even if we cease, life is a miracle Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Variant Title(s): Life Is A Miracl Subject(s): Life SONNET, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could then the babes from yon unshelter'd cot Last Line: Shall gild their passage to eternal rest. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SONNET, by ACTIUS SINCERUS SANNAZARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To heare my plaints faire river christalline Alternate Author Name(s): Sannazaro, Jacopo; Sincerus Subject(s): Country Life SONNET, by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping sister of a farther sky Subject(s): Space & Space Travel;conduct Of Life; Body, Human; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SONNET DEDICATORY, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like royal galleys be my verse here written Last Line: It bears thy dear name on, o royal-hearted! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET OF LIFE, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL Poem Text First Line: I held a torch at the door of death and found Last Line: Of time, these things alone are yours to understand. Subject(s): Life SONNET ON LIFE, by BROOKE BOOTHBY Poem Text First Line: What art thou, life? The shadow of a dream Last Line: Death surely ends at once the dreamer and the dream? Subject(s): Life SONNET ON MOOR PARK - WRITTEN AT LEE PRIORY, AUGUST 10, 1826, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise of the wise and good! It is a meed Last Line: And hope, e'en till the lamp of life goes out. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET TO A PLOW-WOMAN OF NORWAY, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: Deep-bosomed, stalwart-limbed, superbly made Last Line: She lifts a brief intoxicated glance. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers SONNET TO CHARLOTTE M--, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but in life's morning, and as yet Last Line: And thou wilt find the world no vale of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Life SONNET TO MANON: HE DARES NOT DIE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four hours by the clock! How strange it is! Four hours Subject(s): Life; Time SONNET TO THE KYNGE, by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE Poem Text First Line: Sire, your dogge lemon, once your bed-fellowe Last Line: On your devotion waits a like rewarde. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Dogs; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET TO THIS SOIL, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Source First Line: O dark and ruddy soil! How could I Subject(s): Farm Life SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET WRITTEN IN SWEFFLING CHURCHYARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spirit in these ancient stones Last Line: The measure of man's destiny fulfilled. Subject(s): Death; Life; Trees; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 1, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have I known thee, dear, in what strange place Last Line: Our faces blanch, as mine; as thine that pales! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Life; Love; Dead, The SONNET. MATTHEW XXI, 5, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes, a king! What splendors gird him round Last Line: Throned in the heart alone, o lord, thy sovereign reign! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, then, join the murmurming city's throng Subject(s): City & Town Life; Friendship SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 13, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then cried the song of life: 'the flowers that fall Last Line: "beholding death shall not be even glad!" Subject(s): Life SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 2, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white Last Line: No matter by what hand or trick. Variant Title(s): Truth In Love Subject(s): Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SONNET: 2, 1, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand Last Line: The pokeberry spit purple on my hand? Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SONNET: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, dear as memory's joys! Of life that's past Last Line: Disturb the mutual trust our being shares. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Memory SONNET: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, many a time our memory slips aside Last Line: And crowned our nights with coronals of dreams. Subject(s): Family Life; Games; Memory; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SONNET: 6, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed ones up in the sky Last Line: Are many to who serve in tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Heaven; Life SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNET: 98. FATAL INTERVIEW: 30, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "love Is Not All; It Is Not Meant Nor Drink""; Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNET: 98. FATAL INTERVIEW: 30, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Last Line: Or trade the memory of this night for food. %it well may be.I do not think I would Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meant Nor Drin Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNET: CLEAVE THOU THE WAVES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cleave thou the waves that weltering to and fro Last Line: The elements sustain: cleave thou the waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sea; Conduct Of Life; Ocean SONNET: COLD COMFORT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no comfort underneath the sun Subject(s): Transience; Life; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: HE WOULD LEAD A BETTER LIFE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of folly, tired of my own ways Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: LIFE AND DEATH: 1. LIFE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering! And yet majestical in pain Last Line: Nature but travails to reveal us -- light. Subject(s): Life SONNET: ON A FAMILY PICTURE, by THOMAS EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pensive on that portraiture I gaze Last Line: Single, unpropped, and nodding to my fall. Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Relatives SONNET: ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We might, if you had willed, have conquered heaven Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: THE HUMAN SEASONS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four seasons fill the measure of the year Last Line: Or else he would forego his mortal nature. Variant Title(s): The Seasons Of Man Subject(s): Life Change Events; Seasons SONNET: THE MOCKERY OF LIFE: 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God! What a mockery is this life of ours! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONNET: WHO WOULD LIVE AGAIN?, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh who would live again to suffer loss? Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Life SONNET; TO A PAIR OF OLD SHOES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Dear old friends, and must we part Last Line: Soul and body parted - dear old shoe Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONNET; TO A THUNDER STORM, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: How like a silver mountain Last Line: A thunderstorm is so sublime Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought once how theocritus had sung Last Line: The silver answer rang, -- 'not death, but love.' Variant Title(s): "i Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung""; Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 20, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, my beloved, when I think Last Line: Who cannot guess god's presence out of sight. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our two souls stand up erect and strong Last Line: With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived with visions for my company Last Line: Because god's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own beloved, who hast lifted me Last Line: That love, as strong as death, retrieves as well. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death. Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of all the world is changed, I think Last Line: Because thy name moves right in what they say. Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNETS IN TIME OF TRIAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queer! There was no premonitory twitch Last Line: "said, ""what a jolly, sunny sunday morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 11, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You dwell amidst a world not far below Last Line: Nor rail at heights I may not hope to gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 16, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, 'twas the fancy of a fevered mind Last Line: The bloom and odour of this day of days. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Life; Youth SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 4, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, in your palace, amid whatsoe'er Last Line: This halting tongue and trembling heart of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hearts; Life SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10B, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fancy the good fairies dressed in white Last Line: Yet letting the white peep beyond the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Flowers; Life; Seasons; Fall; Elves SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said within myself: I am a fool Last Line: Die if thou wilt; but what hast thou to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Memory; Soul SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun Last Line: And I shall sorrow that I must forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS: 2. OF A CERTAIN SOCIAL CHIROMANCY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger who would my offered palm peruse Last Line: Bite dust beneath us, beggared by the claim. Subject(s): Life; Love; Strangers SONNETS: 5. AN INCIDENT FROM BOCCACCIO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When guido cavalcanti, dante's friend Last Line: They live, wax rich, and grow amid their hoard. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Life; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom SONNETS: CITY CHILDREN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known Last Line: O little flowers that blossom but to fade! Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life SONS AND FATHERS, by RABINDRA K. SWAIN Poem Source First Line: Mahajanpur Last Line: The shore they are forgetting Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Life; Money SOPHIE'S BREASTS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Were important to us seventh grade boys Last Line: Perhaps, then, I'd believe and be satisfied Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Dreams; Women SOPHISTICATION, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked so much of bitter fruit Last Line: —the christian Subject(s): Lament; Life SORCERESS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Where are my affections Last Line: Now I'm a dull myth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SORGENDO DA LUNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound / save the hush'd breath Last Line: And falleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Rome, Italy; Time; Dead, The SORT OF TIMID LIKE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once I loved a maiden Last Line: Sort of timid like. Subject(s): Family Life; Love - Marital; Relatives; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SORTING CATTLE, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Sorting cows, canners and keepers Last Line: Corral %large enough for both of you Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SOUNDING, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: I envy the silence Subject(s): Family Life SOUNDS OF THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: From where I sit the city's ceaseless roar Last Line: Whose every hour a tragedy reveals. Subject(s): Cities; Fights; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William shakespeare of an actual presence Last Line: That hamlet will kill himself first in word, then in deed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't say why he thinks himself shakespeare at the window Last Line: Across the stage when she thought he was not coming. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life SOURCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What tick and tock? Last Line: Brave scientist! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Chickens crowing on sourwood mountain Last Line: Devil's in the women if they take a notion Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life SOUTHERN AGRARIAN POET, by MARY B. WARD Poem Text First Line: Kaleidoscopic, turning, turning Last Line: And antaeus-like takes strength from soil. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers SOUTHERN COMFORT: A GENTLEMAN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings / the sky turns blood Last Line: Or lost. Subject(s): Farm Life; Slavery; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs SOUTHERN FARM HOUSE, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardened and sinewed by the summer sun Last Line: And all their somber years of silent grief. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOUTHERN GOTHIC, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lain down into 1970, into the bed Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SOUTHWESTERN SUITE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Ice two inches thick Last Line: Load 'em on the trucks Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.) SOW PIGLET'S ESCAPES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little sow piglet squirmed free Last Line: She wriggled hard and cried, oui oui oui, all the way home Subject(s): Farm Life SOWER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brown, sad-coloured hillside, where the soil Last Line: This plodding churl grows great in his employ;- %god-like, he makes provision for mankind Subject(s): Farm Life SOWER AND SEED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A kindly word and a kindly deed Subject(s): Farm Life SOWING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a perfect day Last Line: Saying good-night Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds SPACE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The space within me, within which I partly, or possibly mostly exist Last Line: Close again; darkness without end, but wait, still glow, still sentience: bliss Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Life SPARK IN THE TINDER OF KNOWING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Profound stillness in the greystone Last Line: Of my person in time Subject(s): Life; Love SPARKS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: We tinker with our bits of time Last Line: Our own beginning and our end. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPECIAL TREASURE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: If you like a challenge Last Line: And she will transform and expand your existence Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SPECTATORS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This is the brief physical eye Last Line: "they were alive." Subject(s): Life; Miracles; Survival SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Last Line: Coolly transparent through migrant shadows Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural SPEED THE PARTING -, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Transcience; Death; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: At every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep; Relatives SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: Endlessly, or they will kill themselves %at every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep SPENDRIFT, by BLOSSOM BENNETT Poem Text First Line: The golden hours that april brought are spent Last Line: Should learn to choose more wisely when I buy. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism SPHINX, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothing but self, and have no manner of being Last Line: Is it eternal death, or is it infinite life? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPINK MOUNTAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: All I know is that a red lamp gleamed on the delft Last Line: At last what was left of all I remember Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SPINNER OF FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider, spinning a silvery web Last Line: Frost cannot hold flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPIRIT, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is that gentle heat that brooded on Subject(s): Country Life SPIRIT, by CHESTER ANDERS FEE Poem Text First Line: I entered a garden at midnight Last Line: A spirit still lingering there. Subject(s): Life SPIRIT LEVEL, by KEVIN BLACK Poem Source First Line: When illness whittled uncle james Last Line: Where my mother and father are Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Parents SPIRIT QUICKENED, by GRACE HERSEY THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Boldly enter into your own house of silence Last Line: To be met and solved by craftsmanship of mind. Subject(s): Silence; Spiritual Life; Towns SPIRIT-RAPPING; TO THE NEW PROFESSOR SPIRITUAL RAPOLOGY, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou abjured the worship of old mammon Last Line: The secret soon you'll know you may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Teaching & Teachers; Spiritualists; Educators; Professors SPIRIT-SHEPHERD, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice is that? My young lord? Speak again Subject(s): Country Life SPIRITS AT HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was father, and mother. And emmy, and jane Last Line: "for we live in the ghost of the old house now!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Home; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Relatives SPIRITS OF CHILDREN ARE REMOTE AND WISE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The shore where they can lightly come again Subject(s): Life Change Events SPIRITUAL BEAUTY, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That pale and shadowy beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Beauty SPIRITUAL SONNET: THE STREAM OF LIFE, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic figures gliding in the stream Last Line: Minds where a lasting melody is sung. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Angels; Life SPLASH, FLOW, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unerring tragedy of our lives is to sail Last Line: As you hold the woman you love in your arms. Subject(s): Life SPLENDID LOVER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: One and one only is the splendid lover Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SPLITTING FIREWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wood was tough: his stance was wide Last Line: The years stack up like a rank of wood Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPOILED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O pout! %o fuss and bother Last Line: I do not arch or shiver Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SPOILS, by GEORGE WITTE Poem Source First Line: The fields near ours sprout crops of signs Last Line: He's abandoned, that scalds my pocket now Subject(s): Abandonment; Farm Life SPOOKING THE HORSES, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't enough to scale the grapestake -- we dared Last Line: Someone else's fruit, tortured into our own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SPRING, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The crow, adjusting one eye on me Last Line: Nourish the vast, stagnant harvest-fields Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest; Spring SPRING, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Spring is here Last Line: Each death makes a dull sound, %going deep in the ground %without %reverberations Subject(s): Ranch Life SPRING, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I stand as on the verge of life; 'tis spring Last Line: My full heart fails when it should be most strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Spring SPRING, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: All night he could hear the noise Last Line: Quickly as the river ate the land %from under his feet, passed him by Subject(s): Ranch Life; Spring SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War SPRING 1942, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as we were sitting by Last Line: O revolution in the whole %of human use of man and nature! Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii SPRING BIRTHDAY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Because it's spring, on my birthday Last Line: Garden churns to pebbles, to weeds Subject(s): Family Life - China SPRING CLEANING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Roll up the snow fence, winter - staggered Last Line: To strut and hop and flutter! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPRING CLIMBS HIGH, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Behold! The sage is bright and blossoming Subject(s): Farm Life SPRING DAY: MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. Subject(s): Spring; City & Town Life SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SPRING FANCIES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it's weary work to live, / it will rest us to lie dead Last Line: For all the sap of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all! Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs SPRING IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, by NOIN Poem Source First Line: To a mountain village Last Line: From the vespers bells Subject(s): Country Life SPRING MORNING, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Adream I paced the roseate path of dawn Last Line: Lest I beheld them empty of god's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Morning; Spring SPRING NIGHT, by JACQUES DELAMAIN Poem Source First Line: An evening towards the end of march. A gentle Subject(s): Country Life SPRING SCENE IN THE COUNTRY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing, skipping, shaking back Last Line: Youth to train is this, good mothers! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Country Life; Spring SPRING SONG, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Oh the grouse are loudly drumming Last Line: And sparrows wildly fucking Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SPRING, 1965, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: The tallow truck which Last Line: I hate long goodbyes Subject(s): Ranch Life SPRING-BLOSSOMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little daisies, two by two Last Line: His lovely immortality. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Spring SPRING. KOREA 1951, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: The paper house was empty in the middle of the paddy Last Line: Waiting for us to go Subject(s): Farm Life SPROUT, by KORA RUMIKO Poem Source First Line: When I discovered Last Line: Not to tear, but to yield Subject(s): Farm Life SPRUNG, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The ministerial shapes of / chinese women Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Family Life; Relatives SPUNKIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what's come o' spunkie? Last Line: In the darkest o' nichts it shines on the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SPUTTER, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Have it your own way, paul! Let's all Last Line: It got late. %he can't get home Subject(s): Life SQUARE PEGS, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's that? The taximeter points, you day Last Line: That all men share, the world for man is one. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SQUEEZE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: At 11 am mail drop Last Line: Out of the rest of me Subject(s): Life SSSH--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Sssh the sea says Last Line: This is our earth, %our eternity Variant Title(s): Sss Subject(s): Future Life ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When if ever life is sweet Last Line: For her light, her love, her king. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hungary; Life; Religion; Saints; Theology ST. SWITHIN'S DAY, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The seven cleanest cows crowd Last Line: Lowering on us like despair Subject(s): Farm Life STABLE TALK, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have sweat our share Last Line: Tomorrow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I long for the things Last Line: A drab world at bay. Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been on duty from two till four Last Line: And get my bloody old sins washed white! Subject(s): Army Life; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War STANDING NEAR THE GHATS ALONG THE GANGES, by WILLIAM KISTLER Poem Source First Line: Since this is the circumstance of life Last Line: Into ash, gone without hesitation %into the sky of continuous beginning Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Life; Travel STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Last Line: When shall we %dare to fly? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism STANZAS TO M.P., by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I wake not now for thee Last Line: In unison with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics STANZAS; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON HER MARRIAGE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: No voice but that of gladness Last Line: Shall absence it destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Life; Love; Memory; Parting STANZAS; WRITTEN AFTER THE SECOND READING OF 'CORINNA', by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Childhood's glad smile was on my lip, life's sunshine on my brow Last Line: The reed when wooed by zephyr's breath, the oak when tempests lower. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Fear; Life; Love; Youth STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The fragrance of the pine is myrrh Last Line: The steadfast christmas star has shone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF LIGHT, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: It's christmas, the year before the accident, when the Last Line: Their arms full of stars Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Stars STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires Last Line: Are stars and deeps within. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Last Line: Going hungry for five or six hours %to give his flight-lunch%to his two little girls Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life STARK COUNTY HOLIDAY, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother's kingdom does not fall Subject(s): Family Life STARLIGHT, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The stars / are numberless Last Line: Believe in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Hope; Life; Stars; Optimism STARLIGHT OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Packing in the primitive Last Line: To find our dark way home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STARLIGHT REFLECTIONS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this grey column - overthrown Last Line: They shall not rise again! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Friendship; Humanity; Life STARRY HEAVENS WITHOUT, by PTOLEMAEUS OF ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal though I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment Last Line: And my lively spirit drinketh immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Ptolemy Variant Title(s): Immortality Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life STARS MAY FALL IN ONE'S HAND, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: When you are with me, I, who am all too sane, am a little mad Last Line: And stars, like snow, may fall in one's hand Subject(s): Life Change Events STATE AND 32ND, COLD MORNING BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl in a torn chemise Subject(s): City & Town Life; Morning STATES OF MATTER, by SUSAN CONLEY Poem Source First Line: I want to buy a vowel Last Line: Where a man in capped white sleeves serves fruit drinks Subject(s): Calm; Life STAYING HERE AT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And guard your body Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life STEALING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My mother taught me how to steal potatoes Last Line: Then feast Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STEEPLECHASE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: What did she mean Last Line: As we run the long race? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina STELLA AND MIRA, by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mira, thine eyes are those twin heavenly powers Subject(s): Country Life STEPCHILD, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The muse visits me Last Line: And refuses to return %until I make fresh oatmeal Subject(s): Ranch Life STEPFATHER: A GIRL'S SONG, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again heavy rain drives him home Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Stepfathers STEPPING STONES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Be kind, be true, be friendly, when Last Line: To jesus: in a better land Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio STILL (ACTIVE) LIFE WITH PLUM TREE, MAN, AND DOG, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Unlike some of my fellow primates Last Line: Before us like flaming embers Subject(s): Life STILL ANOTHER DAY: 28, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long, visitor. Last Line: It does not die %gracias Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets STILL FINDING OUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Finding out that grandpa perry Last Line: Part still %finding %out Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness STILL KICKING IN AMERICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm older, %the old ones ask %the same questions Last Line: Hoping for words %to come out right in english Subject(s): Family Life - India; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STILL LIFE, by ROBIN BEHN Poem Source First Line: There is a train, no, there are train Last Line: Flower's faces. Vases and vases Subject(s): Life; Railroads STILL LIFE, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: The fish, bleeding garlic-flavored butter Last Line: Rather than captured, all hope gone, %in a shallow pond of butter Subject(s): Quiet Life STILL LIFE, by BILL KECKLER Poem Source First Line: A sleeve without a person. A bowl sans shadows. None of this Last Line: Both happy automatons again, having shed the freezing skin of that image Subject(s): Quiet Life STILL LIFE, by WILGA ROSE Poem Source First Line: Early morning, with mist Last Line: I know I will not see this place %again Subject(s): Life; Morning STILL LIFE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: A hidden blossoming Last Line: From this fountain %of dark silence Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life STILL LIFE WITH APPROACHING DEATH, by ANTHONY LAWRENCE First Line: Harnessed by the fretwork of her temper Last Line: Into herself, through cerements of lace Subject(s): Death; Life STILL LIFE WITH MOVEMENT, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: A pear, representing innocence Last Line: Which to take first for himself Subject(s): Life; Metaphor STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 4. LIFELINE, by PETER MARKUS Poem Source First Line: All of that summer and into the fall, he saw men he'd known his whole Last Line: Told the future of a town where only the dead were left to bury the dead Subject(s): Life STILL, LIFE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We stand before the one, done when he was twenty Last Line: Of the light, this smear of silver brilliance on the vast encircling %dark Subject(s): Life; Saint Kilda (scotland) STILL-LIFE WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, by DAVID RICKS Poem Source First Line: The open score Last Line: And a curtain ready to fall Subject(s): Life; Music And Musicians STILLNESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The hours %sullen goats grazing on emptiness Last Line: Knowing this %the wind plays dead Subject(s): Family Life - India STILLORGAN, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This house that is not old or beautiful Last Line: Deeper than words, and words can never say. Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives STOLEN LIFE, by ELIZABETH WILLIS Poem Source First Line: Siblings are forever, spinning out fate like an evil twin Last Line: She can hold her own at sea Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Sisters STOMPING THE BEAVER PLACE, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: Water flows down the mountain Last Line: Inside her, ready to scream Subject(s): Farm Life STONE ARABIA, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STONES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The young man walked in stones and stubble Last Line: He shares a field with them today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STONES TURN THEIR BACKS TO US, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our lives are light as flyspecks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Stones STONY WATER, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here many suns and many a sky, deep-overcast and dark Subject(s): Conduct Of Life STOP ME!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop me, good people! Don't you see Last Line: Help, shame, caution, love, wisdom, and all! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Stop to think-the earth Last Line: The earth has not been %till then Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe STOPPING AT THE STATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The train made a ceremony of arrival Last Line: And a quiet huff huff puff puff puff puff Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOPPING BY THE MANOR OF AN OLD FRIEND, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend cooked chicken and millet Last Line: And I'll come back for chysanthemums Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Farm Life; Friendship; Nature STORE CANDY, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Don't go,' she said, 'we'll do with what we have.' Last Line: And all the bright store candy scattered round Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Women - Writers STORIES, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: Nights she counted coins from my father's vending machines Last Line: Five languages at once & every house was white with red shutters Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Life STORM AND KINDNESS, by BLANCHE PEASE Poem Source First Line: I shall never cease to fear Subject(s): Farm Life STORM FRONT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The colt noses the water Last Line: The braided hair rope, my macate, %is rough and stiffens in my hands Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STORM-BORN VERSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Swirling clouds darkening my windows Last Line: Through my fingers, like a congo eel Subject(s): Family Life - China STORY WITH A MORAL, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Now I know there's things worse that make cowpunchers curse Last Line: And the moral, I think, is if you must take a drink %never, ever remount and ride upstream Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STOVE WOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sugar maples herd within the grove Last Line: I still have tears to mourn the dryad's fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STRAIGHT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all these old photographs sun Subject(s): Life STRAIGHT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all these old photographs sun Last Line: Eternity they don't dream will fail Subject(s): Life STRANGE BIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Came a strange bird Last Line: Who would shoot this strange bird down Subject(s): Family Life - China STRANGE FILAMENT, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: This transient moment which we call our own Last Line: Upon the endless treadmill of the years. Subject(s): Life; Time STRANGER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I almost hate her - this stranger Last Line: Stranger in my house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRAWBERRIES, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were never strawberries Last Line: Let the storm wash the plates Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Strawberries STRAY CAT NAMED MEECH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When he came to us out of the wet woods Last Line: In the woods Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I so love water-laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature STREET MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how the dance-tune trips it through the street Last Line: From a bleared woman, sick and old and sad! Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Spring; Streets; Avenues STREET NAMES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: I read all the names of the streets as we drove to visit him Last Line: And see them populated with no one I now love Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mothers; Sickness STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cities; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life STREETS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight streets of the city Subject(s): Women; Beauty; City & Town Life STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues STRETCH OUT, FOR LIFE IS WEARY, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretch out,for life is weary at your side Last Line: Sings in the radiance of her smile. ... Subject(s): Life; Weariness; Fatigue STRIFE AND PEACE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow poplar leaves came down Last Line: Hath entered into peace. Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Poplar Trees; Sleep STRING OF MY ANCESTORS, by NINA NYHART Poem Source First Line: When I need string I can't find it Last Line: It crawls off %in two directions Subject(s): Family Life STRIPPER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: On the stage, mirrored many times Last Line: Matching the wine in my veins Subject(s): Family Life; History; Popular Culture - United States; Striptease Dancers STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Alone all day Last Line: I have shaken hands with lightning Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRUGGLE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The role of ease is not the salient quest Last Line: Who would know life, attends a rugged school. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Problems; Human Race STRUNG, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A light. A rose. Hub of the day Last Line: Points of star needle down Subject(s): Children; Life; Parents STRUT, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning to guard against glut I chop %zucchini zealots for the lambs Last Line: Of birth and rebirth the strut of the season. %almost bliss Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life STUDENT SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that at the core of it Last Line: For as long as we are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Regret; Wisdom STUDIES FOR PICTURES: 1. AT HOME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is sobbing on the wold Last Line: And none to love me on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Home; Life STUDIES STATIC AND ECSTATIC, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: In the house of my fathers Last Line: And goes on its way, whistling. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Home; Self; Soul; Relatives STYGIAN VILLANELLE, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Charon, cease your constant rowing Last Line: On these waters darkly flowing. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The SUBMERGED CITY, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That city will be no more, no halos Subject(s): City & Town Life SUBURBAN IDYL, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: They are clearing ground to build a house Last Line: And children's arms around us like a wall! Subject(s): Calm; Family Life; Flowers; Suburbs; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Relatives SUBURBAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Across his field the farmer trudged Last Line: For the child of the city and land. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Suburbs; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SUBWAY PSALM, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: It's the first storm of the winter Last Line: Is the finest storm I've ever seen %and everything is exactly as it should be Subject(s): Family Life SUCH NEAR ASPECTS HAD WE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of our life's scenery Subject(s): Life SUGAR SLAVE, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time a little boy felled a tree Last Line: Refined and in the jar you pass upon request Subject(s): Farm Life SUGGESTIONS OF ETERNITY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: False time, so fleet, so fugitive! Last Line: Where time's all ends. Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Time; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUICIDE POEM, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: When I was fifteen Last Line: Hold a special place in older women's hearts Subject(s): Family Life; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; Suicide SUITE TO APPLENESS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the quonset shed unloading the fertilizer Last Line: Losing shape, into a thick green slime and jelly. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fruit; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUM, by JAMES NOLAN Poem Source First Line: My accountant father Subject(s): Family Life SUM PEOPLE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: The black man %said Last Line: One %plus %one Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SUMMARY, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: We live by not being...By being we die Last Line: We will always be posthumous Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events SUMMER, by BINYO IVANOV Poem Source First Line: On this long farm facing rila mountain Last Line: Will keep on heading east Subject(s): Farm Life SUMMER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is cold-hearted, / spring is yea and nay Last Line: That days drone elsewehere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life; Summer SUMMER HILL, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like to me it ought to be winter hill Last Line: The blade bite wood. Sound can't keep up with light Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors; Country Life SUMMER HILLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I will go back to the summer hills Last Line: The young, glad days, when we walked together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUMMER I TURNED SIXTEEN, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Take jewelweed, you told me, for the sting Last Line: Can turn on us as a surprise when we need it most Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Summer SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the men leave me Last Line: I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart em Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Country Life SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the young mothers are beautiful Last Line: Now. Steal pleasure Subject(s): City & Town Life SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUMMER KITCHEN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In june's high light she stood at the sink Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 2. ADAGIO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something came with the falling dusk Last Line: Though kissed a thousand times, kiss not again! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 4. CAPRICCIOSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay! The longings tender Last Line: So caught, is held to my impatient heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Life; World SUMMER SNOW, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When stoneflies hatch %on the yellowstone Last Line: Fish and give thanks Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SUMMER TIME ON BREDON, by HUGH KINGSMILL LUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis summer time on bredon Last Line: The cattle then are sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Hugh Variant Title(s): Poem (after A.e. Housman) Subject(s): Bredon Hill; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! But my mind is weary! Last Line: "come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Life; Summer; Youth; Wine SUMMERTIME CAVATINAS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The general's wife came Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SUN BATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She never heard of helios or ra Last Line: As the sun god laid his hand upon her back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUN HAS BURST THE SKY, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source Last Line: Crazy with joy because I love you Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Life Change Events SUNBEAMS IN AN ALIEN LAND, by HONG YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: In the village where I live Last Line: And then I moved into the present village Subject(s): Family Life SUNDAY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when they sat down in the morning Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Relatives SUNDAY AFTERNOONS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They'd latch the screen doors Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SUNDAY AFTERNOONS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They'd latch the screen doors Last Line: Held prisoner in the house Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Family Life SUNDAY MORNING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SUNDOWN IN THE COW CAMP, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: The hoodie's washed the dishes Last Line: But that old cow's stopped her bawlin' %so I guess she's found her calf Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SUNKEN GARDENS, by ADA VAN LOON BRANDOW Poem Text First Line: Your eyes, dear one, as sunken gardens deep Last Line: Of life, when cups are drunken to their fill. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Life; Soul SUNKEN TREASURES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the uneasy waves of life subside Last Line: And bring a single jewel from its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Tears; Treasures; Destiny SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNRISE IN THE CITY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise over the houses! Last Line: And the christ-light shining in ' Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Religion; Urban Life; Sunrise; Theology SUNSET - HERNDON, IA 1979, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: The old brown barn Last Line: No neon, no traffic lights %nothing but ghostly miles Subject(s): Country Life; Evening SUNSET AT THE GETTY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Framed by the villa's fluted colonnades Last Line: The treasures of the getty from their tomb? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SUNSET AT TWIN LAKE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The heron stalks Subject(s): Family Life; History SUNSET CLOUDS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish Subject(s): Country Life SUNSET ON CRYSTAL LAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sunset streams across the lake Last Line: Water and sky grow dark together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUPERMARKET, by ELIZABETH BERRY Poem Source First Line: Being beautiful never used to matter Last Line: A leg or a heart ocsts the same, %my lamb Subject(s): Life; Markets SUPPER AT THE MILL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, frances / well, good mother, how are you? Last Line: The supper's ready. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Food & Eating; Mills & Millers; Plays & Playwrights ; Childhood; Relatives; Dramatists SUPPER GATHERERS, by FREDRICK ZYDEK Poem Source First Line: The moon on this side %of his universe Last Line: Just before singing Subject(s): Family Life; Reunions; Singing And Singers SUPPLE CORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother, in his small white bed Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives SUPPLICATION, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poetry, visit this house often, Subject(s): Life Choices SUPPOSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose, my little lady Last Line: To do the best you can? Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. (CONTINUED), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bliss of heaven, maria, shall be thine! Last Line: For ever feeling pain or missing bliss below. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. FORCED CONVICTION OF FUTURE STATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'erladen with sad musings, till the tear Last Line: That such as thou were never born to die!' Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SURE, IT'S FUN, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun, Last Line: Fun? -- sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SURFACES, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darling %you are not alone Subject(s): Family Life SURGICAL CONSULTATION, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: My father said Last Line: In the dark %meat of daughters Subject(s): Family Life; Sickness SURRENDER, by KATHERINE KELLY WOODLEY Poem Text First Line: You are the stars, beloved, my moon and sun Last Line: No will, no inclination to resist. Subject(s): Life SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Naught but the fittest lives,' I hear Last Line: May weave into its nest of song. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Survival; Time SUSIE BROWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Love in the middle as we go 'round Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness SWALLOWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Imagine the journey they make Last Line: And rise like one over water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SWANSONG, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: After the snowfall, %a blank sheet of paper Last Line: The black neck of a swan %drooping on the windowsill Subject(s): Family Life - India SWAPPING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like a wing, wong, waddle Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SWEET CORN, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: March, mud-kneeling, harlan Last Line: The broken ones, we chop down Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens And Gardening; Memory; Neighbors SWEET EVELENA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down in the valley Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SWEET LEONORE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Gone has leonore from this weary world away Last Line: Darling sweet leonore! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio SWEET WILLIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A-walking and a-talking Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SWIFT DAYS, THAT UP TILL NOW, by SHELDON CHRISTIAN Poem Text First Line: Swift days, that up till now have flown Last Line: We alone stand, eternal man and wife. Subject(s): Life; Time SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 6. THE WILL TO RESIST...., by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: My great-grandfather combs %in the dim mirror Last Line: Unconditional surrender. It is at hand Subject(s): Family Life; War SWIMMER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I almost loaded the food in the car Last Line: Not a storm in sight as they set out across Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love SWIMMING, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: Our relation to you is the same as Last Line: And you, my dear... Here his words drifted off Subject(s): Lakes; Life; Swimming SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement; Agriculture; Farmers SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Last Line: And the apple-blossom is allowed to wither on the bough Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement SYLVIA, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia is always gay Last Line: Oh, the journey would be dark. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY, by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Cabin stands in clearing, unkempt, deserted Last Line: Songs of the fearless. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Progress; United States - History SYMPHONY, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Throughout the room the piano sang Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life SYMPTOM RECITAL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like my state of mind; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings SYMPTOMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Last Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race SYRO-PHOENICIAN WOMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Had christ rebuffed me as he did that mother Last Line: And if he then blessed humour - cherish it Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TABLE TALK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granted, we die for good Last Line: Of the way things happen to fall Subject(s): Life TACO SAUCE: 1982, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: I fold my apron %and prepare to catch my flight Last Line: And write: 'taco sauce: 1982 %first wife' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TAIL THAT'S LIGHT, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Goin' on fresh snow Last Line: My song, I'm singin' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TAILOR CALLED SORROW, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in drizzling rain Last Line: Hang, %and mingled white basting thread %in their hair Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life TAKE CARE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little children, you must seek Last Line: You will show for what you are. Subject(s): Children; Advice; Conduct Of Life TAKE ME TO SOME HIGH PLACE OF HEATHER, by FRANCIS XAVIER MATHEWS Poem Source Last Line: Reminding you how we shared in the joy of living Subject(s): Life Change Events TAKERS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: The government took all his horses Last Line: That you heroically shot him down laughing %and how he's at last traveled home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TAKING AWAY THE BANKING, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march winds carried prophecies of june Last Line: When all the hills of god kept holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers TAKING DOWN THE TREE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me some light! Cries hamlet's Last Line: We're having, let it be extravagant Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives TAKING IT BACK, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: I can come here now and take back Last Line: I'll catch the bouquet of pink and blue mussels. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TAKING STOCK, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Counting time has come simply %because this sense of worthlessness Last Line: Partly or wholly a truth discovered, %through the spinning years Subject(s): Family Life - India TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions TAKING THE TRAIN HOME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk grew on the window. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Railways; Homecoming; Family Life; Fathers; Death; Relatives; Dead, The TALE: 3. THE GENTLEMAN FARMER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all Last Line: She rules a mistress, and she reigns a wife. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TALKING TO THE WOODS IN SPRING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: We werent worth much %last fall Last Line: Roots %dont you Subject(s): Country Life TALKNG AMONG OURSELVES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rental cottage it comes to me, Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Divorce; Grief; Half-brothers; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness TALL BUSH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowgirl has a heap of fun Last Line: The bliss of pure relief Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TALL NETTLES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall nettles cover up, as they have done Last Line: Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TAM CARI CAPITIS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the world will never be quite - what a cliche - the same again Last Line: On full at a threat to the queen or double top Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Life Change Events TAM O' SHANTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chapman [or, chapmen] billies leave the street Last Line: Remember tan o'shanter's mare. Subject(s): Country Life; Fairies; Elves TAMED DRAKE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: The farmer's son had found Subject(s): Farm Life; Geese TANGLED RELIQUARY, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tangled reliquary under all surfaces Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TANKS, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: Co ye to? %crossing the frontier Last Line: Whistles at the screen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tanks (military Science) TAPESTRIES OF LIFE, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: A web of life we spin from day to day Last Line: Is woven in our tapestry of life. Subject(s): Life TAPPING THE SAP BUSH - 1918, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not spring, and not winter either Last Line: But sapping time Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TARIM REPENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul once was pagan Last Line: That I may not forget. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingerly is good king tarquin shaving Last Line: Rodgers' name engraved upon the blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Shaving; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Last Line: The weaver at rest Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weavers And Weaving; Women And Religion TASK, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: This is like a lover Last Line: Before you reach the ice Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TASK (17), by SPENCER SELBY Poem Source First Line: Monster born of meaning Last Line: That I leave beside a camera %with no flash Subject(s): Change; Life TASK (24), by SPENCER SELBY Poem Source First Line: He has run over death Last Line: He dreams about %but doesn't believe Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind TASKMASTER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You said, 'write verses' Last Line: Or the darkness seeping into my mouth Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TATTOO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They guy down the table at the aa meeting Last Line: But with a kind of will, %like medicine Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Life TATTOOED CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who am only an incomprehensible Subject(s): Self; City & Town Life TAURUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scorpion's stars crawl down behind the sun Last Line: To warm my soul with more heroic song. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Life; Soul; Stars TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And courage and worship and love Subject(s): Time; Transience; Conduct Of Life TEACHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is a man whose hand has pointed out Last Line: For love of life and living and for laughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEACHER REMEMBERED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Her thoughts were never folded in a book Last Line: And see her face on every turning page Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEAHOUSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: At the rickshaw-jammed gate of chengdu Last Line: Moaning incessantly into the eastern seas Subject(s): Family Life - China TEAR IT DOWN, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We find out the heart only by dismantling what Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider life and its few years - Last Line: Homer his sight, david his little lad ! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEASING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this picture my son's face Last Line: Fork poised over the meat Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Grief TELEGRAM, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Behind our house, one october morning Last Line: Too stupid to tell my ancestral spirit from a bird Subject(s): Family Life - China TELL US AGAIN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Back then,' gemma said, 'they gave you ether, Last Line: Gleaming with sequins Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TEMPERAMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where love and hate, honor and infamy Last Line: Back to that mystery when we go there. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TEMPERANCE SONG; AIR: 'FELLERS GRAVE', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The banner of temperance is now unfurled Last Line: To that bourne that intemperance cannot gain Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TEMPERANCE SONG; AIR: WASHINGTON'S GRAVE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: There's a home to be found for the homeless Last Line: Your country's salvation to crown Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TEMPERANCE SONG; COLD WATER FOR ME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ye lovers of bacchus who bow at its shrine Last Line: And pledge in a cup of cold water with me! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TEMPEST, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Love; Sea TEMPLE OF ATTIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: On cybele's holy hill Last Line: The throne of peter stands Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TEMPORARY CITY, by NIJOLE MILIAUSKAITE Poem Source First Line: Walking %in the evening Last Line: Saying %yes Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Life, Modern; Lithuania TEMPTATION, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They took him to a mountain top to see Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TEMPTATION, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: You think you know temptation Last Line: Til you've rode a horse to school in spring, %you haven't got a clue Subject(s): Ranch Life TEMPTED, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the wilderness Last Line: So christ's immortal rose above his mortal %and on it trod Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TEN CENTS A POUND, by PAUL BONE Poem Source First Line: The pumpkins are spread out like swollen suns Last Line: I've forgotten which one of us is the planet and which the orbit Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit TEN LEPERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not white and shining like an ardent flame Last Line: Before I shall forget thee, keep me, lord, %a sick man at thy gate Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Leprosy; Religion TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen; Urban Life TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not ox Last Line: All things are ox Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen; Human Race TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not ox Last Line: All things are ox Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM IRAQ, by THOMAS DORSETT Poem Source First Line: Who ever heard of a trophy with wrinkles? Last Line: What more can one hope for these days? Subject(s): Life; Old Age TEN WEEK WIFE, by RHODA DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Dried to a pit of meanness Subject(s): Family Life TEN YEARS AGO, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ten years ago! Ten years ago! Last Line: That was my friend - ten years ago! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TEN YEARS OLD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city child, rooms are to him no mere Last Line: "richard! Get through! And put your stockings on." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships TENDER MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watching by the river where the lilies blow Last Line: With the sublime and sacred light of truth. Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs TENEBRAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the chill high tide of the night Last Line: "spirit, and saviour, and life." Subject(s): Life; Night; Salvation; Soul; Bedtime TENT-MATES, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's no cinch to live together Last Line: Answers are articles of war: %men are seldom brothers Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TERESA'S ENIGMA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How can I explain this? Last Line: In my mouth the taste of honey and flame Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TERRORIST, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: If I were a poet, a prominent one Last Line: Enough at this till finally I am %thrust cleanly down between the shoulder blades Subject(s): Ranch Life TESTIMONY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I learned 'gomez' meant ox urine Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Relatives TESTIMONY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I learned 'gomez' meant ox urine Last Line: Hardening at the mere thought of 'drink' Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is every day the judgment day? Last Line: The hand that plies eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TEXAS, by LAVELLE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: This land I know is texas, loved for these Subject(s): Farm Life THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THAMES, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This glorious river feeleth the violence Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Country Life THANK GERARD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cascade: rain torrential rain Subject(s): Rain; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THANKSGIVING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Thanksgiving day is set apart Last Line: "praise father, son, and holy ghost!" Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Nations; Praise; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Relatives THANKSGIVING, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sided with the sleepwalkers. Today Last Line: Of wheat loomed as a story the farmers %cannot wait to tell Subject(s): Farm Life; Holidays; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING (1), by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tides in my eye are heavy Last Line: On the hill where she, too, was once young Subject(s): Family Life THANKSGIVING HYMN, by EDDA AYERS Poem Source First Line: Happy am I when the year brims over Subject(s): Farm Life THANKSGIVING HYMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A scarlet thread of wonder Last Line: Runs through the woof of days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THAT IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This instigates an appetite %precisely opposite Variant Title(s): Poem: 1741; Poem: 176 Subject(s): Life; Mourning THAT KIND OF POEM', by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He called our son to ask if he Last Line: "of poem"" to keep her alive." Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Women; Dead, The; Relatives THAT MAN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh days given over to a fruitless Last Line: And who, one afternoon like all the rest, %settles for these lines Subject(s): Life; Mankind THAT SUCH HAVE DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That such have died enables us Last Line: For immortality. Subject(s): Immortality; Life Change Events THAT V. C., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the days of front attack Last Line: He might have let me be a hero.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; Truth; Drills & Minor Tactics THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The lean years were the best years, looking back - Last Line: That was a christmas to warm me all my life! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THAT WIFE OF MINE, by WAKAYAMA MIMARO Poem Source Last Line: I could never forgive her Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life THAT'S ALL, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: In the luminous hour Last Line: Do you remember why %we live this way? Subject(s): Life THAT'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any stranger thinks vermont Last Line: Or boom! Bing! Bang! Wow! Wang! And zip! Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers THAW, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: The south slope %bares it's breast Last Line: Out of my back %like grubs Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THE 'EATHEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone Last Line: Mind you keep your rifle an' yourself jus' so! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE 'OTHER MAN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If every man would do the things the 'other man' should do Last Line: "if every man would think himself to be the ""other man." Subject(s): Brotherhood; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE 'TRUE VERMONTER', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said the true vermonter's gait Last Line: Is thunderation on a guess. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE A & P, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rolled a tomato in her hand, pink rubber Subject(s): Farm Life; Migrant Workers; Food & Eating; Supermarkets THE ACTRESS AND THE RAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear her feet overhead. As ever, at night Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Man-woman Relationships; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Male-female Relations; Stage Life THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE AFFIANCED ONES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou weep'st, and on me look'st, believing Last Line: Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE AFRICAN PRINCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a king in africa Last Line: One hope within his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Africa; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AFTERGLOW, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full 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 Full 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 AFTERNOON NAP, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The farmer sat in his easy chair Last Line: Fast asleep were they both, that summer day! Variant Title(s): A Picture Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Sleep; Agriculture; Farmers THE AGES OF MAN, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees Last Line: We grow not merry though the dotard laughed. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Life; Mankind; Childhood; Human Race THE AGES OF MAN, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweat, thought, and prayer - engage Last Line: Youth, middle years, and age. Subject(s): Life THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW, FLEMINGTON, VICTORIA, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lumbering tractor rolls its panting round Last Line: Quiet lakes and milking sheds; 'fares please, fares please.' Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Exhibitions; Farm Life; World's Fairs; Expositions; Agriculture; Farmers THE ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Your grace is welcome from the queen of scotland Last Line: Cecil. My lord, you make me blush. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Pity; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ALL RIGHT UN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from further out Last Line: Was 'a all right un'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ALTRUIST ORDER, SELECTION, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: He will not sleep, my child Last Line: May shine the radiant sun: mankind's first god! Subject(s): Babies; Home; Life; Mothers; Silence; Infants THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE ANGLER AND THE PHILOSOPHER, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gives us line, we shift the scene Last Line: "to distant climes, untried, unknown." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Anglers THE ANSWER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then what is the answer?- not to be deluded by dreams. Last Line: Or drown in despair when his days darken Subject(s): Integrity; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE APOLOGY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not if here you haply find Last Line: The country love, the country blush! Subject(s): Country Life; Muses; Youth THE ARK UPON HIS SHOULDERS, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband did all this. - we used to live Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ARROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is an arrow Last Line: Then draw it to the head, and let it go! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Life THE ART OF DISAPPEARING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they say don't I know you? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ARTIST, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before his finished work Last Line: Had closed his eyes in death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Life; Dead, The THE ASPIRATION, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: How long, great god, how long must I Last Line: But fly, and love on all the way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AUSTRALIAN BELL-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll -- toll. The bell-bird sounding far away Last Line: Congratulant and clear estelle, estelle. Subject(s): Bellbirds; Bells; Dreams; Home; Life; Love; Nightmares THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like the flowing stream / that glides where summer's beauties teem Last Line: And center in my parent lake. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Brooks; Life; Streams; Creeks THE AUTHOR'S MANNER OF LIVING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On rainy days I dine alone Last Line: I pay my club, and so god b' y' -- Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE AVENGER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile that was ecstatic billings Last Line: And the people made him mayor of the town! Subject(s): Cities; Mayors; Urban Life THE AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Subject(s): Solitude; Night; Restaurants; City & Town Life; Love; Bedtime; Cafes; Diners THE AVIATOR, by FRANK R. THURSTON Poem Text First Line: I'll don my helmet and flying gear Last Line: Swift and sure and clean. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Life; Sky; Dead, The THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet Last Line: The quiet land of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE BACKGROUND GROUP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd huzzas, the music madly plays Last Line: The children orphaned at the mouths of guns. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heroism; Life; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE BACKWARD LOOK, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Back through the years, still unresigned Last Line: Back through the years. Subject(s): Life; Past THE BALER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tourist composed upon that fence Last Line: And half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers THE BALLAD OF AUNT GENEVA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geneva was the wild one Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Literary Form; Racism; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE BALLAD OF MELICERTES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, a light outshining life, bids heaven resume Last Line: Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE BALLAD OF THE HOPELESS MAN, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks for entrance at this hour?' Last Line: "for—so—one friend shall mourn my fate!" Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism THE BALLAD OF THE THREE SONS, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: A rich man is a man Last Line: But I have none. Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES; TO ANDREW LANG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cities of the plain? Last Line: Where are the cities of old time? Subject(s): Cities; Jews; Urban Life; Judaism THE BALUSTRADE, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ultimate boundary: arms Subject(s): Amnesia; Conduct Of Life; Fear THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT Poem Text First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb. Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States THE BAPTISTRY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Last Line: But only light -- the full light -- at the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Conduct Of Life THE BAR, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bards the lybian desert sing Last Line: And final judgment close the scene. Subject(s): Life; Nations; Truth THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtful reader here may see Last Line: The fervent blessing of a father! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Life; Tears THE BARGAIN OF FAUST, by HAZEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Shall a man, then, not own his own soul? Why Last Line: She hers in heaven, but you yours in hell. Subject(s): Faust; Future Life; Love; Sin; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BATCHELOR OF SIXTY-TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say to ninety-five they live Last Line: "sing lackadaisy, etc" Subject(s): Life;marriage;single People; Weddings;husbands;wives;bachelors;unmarried People THE BATH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off, fetters of the falser life Last Line: Between the land and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; God; Life; Sea; World; Ocean THE BATTLE OF LANGSIDE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sit on leafy bowers in langside wood Last Line: Are felt on hill and grove near langside wood. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BATTURE, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BEAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late winter Last Line: Was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Blood; Life THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTY OF A CITY, by ELIZABETH DAWSON Poem Text First Line: The beauty of a city seems to be Last Line: In the rain; and smiles on passing faces. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BEGINNING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell strange things of the primeval earth Last Line: On certain days I dream about her still.' Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Hearts; Life; World THE BELIEFS OF A HORSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field out back Subject(s): Horses; Ranch Life THE BEST OF IT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However carved up Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BEST, THE MOST, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one young woman lives with me Last Line: And failing, falling, ruined, rich. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BETTER LIFE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From silken cords of earth's delight Last Line: The winds of heaven blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Prayer Meetings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BEWILDERED GUEST, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was not asked if I should like to come Last Line: We know we shall not meet him here again. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Guests; Hospitality; Life; Visiting THE BIG GAME, by ALEX. C. D. NOE Poem Text First Line: I may save a million pounds Last Line: And know I once was there. Subject(s): Fullness; Good Samaritan; Humanity; Life; Satiation THE BIRD BATH, by EDITH HARRIET JONES Poem Text First Line: He paused without surprise / upon the verge Last Line: Sophisticated city ways. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BIRD-BOY, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far weightier cares and wider scenes expand Last Line: And curses on thee break his midnight rest. Subject(s): Country Life THE BIRTH OF A SONG, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: It strove all day for right of birth Last Line: I sang into life my song of june. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BISHOP'S SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the see, the see, the bishop's see" Last Line: Shall come to the wealthy bishop's see Subject(s): Clergy;death;farm Life;love; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;agriculture;farmers; THE BITING INSECTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACK HERALDS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACK MAMMY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitened head entwined in turban gay Last Line: That it some day might crush thine own black child? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE BLACK MESSENGERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are in life such hard blows . . . I don't know! Subject(s): Life; Religion THE BLACKBERRY PICKER, by CHRISTINE SLOAN Poem Text First Line: Just as the sun begins to tint Last Line: And makes his simple trade. Subject(s): Blackberries; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBIRD IN TOWN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the stone-prisoned tree Last Line: Through the spring nights and days. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blackbirds; Country Life; Singing & Singers; Towns THE BLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You blame yourself Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLOODY SON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where have ye been the morn sae late Last Line: "o dear mither." Subject(s): Family Life; Morning; Relatives THE BLUE-GRASS PLOT, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot Last Line: The grass-plot over the river. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives THE BLUNDER IS TO ESTIMATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As this eternity Subject(s): Future Life THE BOARDER, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time is after dinner. Cigarettes Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE BOARDING, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days under the white Last Line: Im telling you out of my soul Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary THE BOATHOUSE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the last lessons of fatigue Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BOBBIN-WINDER, by JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH ARCHER Poem Text First Line: I saw time sitting on a stool Last Line: And a thing of beauty wrought. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: I LOVE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love says the acrobat Last Line: And the dirty glass of the jugs of the juggler Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE BOOK OF LIFE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some puzzle out with finger cramped and slow Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE BOOK OF LIFE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything very hardy Last Line: Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I first discovered what was killing these men. Subject(s): Family Life; Labor & Laborers; Death; Relatives; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camera at the crossing sees the city Subject(s): City & Town Life THE BREATH OF LIFE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And while they talked and talked, and while they sat Last Line: And the great sun tossed laughter on the world! Subject(s): Life THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE BRIDGE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, as a lordly dream Last Line: From shore to shore! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bridges; Life THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BROKEN GROUND, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opening out and out Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BROKEN HOUSEHOLD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, vainly, memory seeks Last Line: Where none wander and none die. Subject(s): Death Children; Family Life; Fathers; Survival THE BROKEN WING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past Last Line: And scale the stars upon my broken wing! Subject(s): Life; Rebirth; Spring THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE BROTHERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were twa brethren fell on strife Last Line: And the wind wears owre the heather. Subject(s): Brothers; Life; Half-brothers THE BUBBLE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out springs the bubble, dazzling bright Last Line: The bubble bursts, -- and this is life! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Graves; Life; Nations; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUDDING OF THE ORCHARD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! The budding of the orchard Last Line: Are returning through the dusk. Subject(s): Country Life; June; Orchards THE BUGLER'S FIRST COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill there) Last Line: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these. Subject(s): Army Life; Eucharist; Gays & Lesbians; Drills & Minor Tactics; Communion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BULL FIGHT, by L. WORTHINGTON GREEN Poem Text First Line: The couriers from chihuahua go Last Line: And juan takes his pepita back from the town. Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Bulls; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE BULL-ROARER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only saw my father's face in butchery Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BUNK-HOUSE ORCHESTRA, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out Last Line: "when we have an hour of firelight set to ""turkey in the straw." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we on earth have run our race Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones THE BURIED LIFE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet Last Line: And the sea where it goes. Subject(s): Introspection; Conduct Of Life THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE CALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy stands on the hilltops Last Line: Some day I'll be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Country Life THE CALL, by THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Last Line: Is worth an age without a name. Variant Title(s): The Reply Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CALL OF ETERNITY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, thou shalt be with me to-night Last Line: Shalt be learning thy spirit's grandest consummation. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CALL OF LIFE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Only one life to live! To do the best Last Line: Thou art a ruby in god's paradise. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts THE CALL OF THE BLOOD, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water the shadows are creeping Last Line: Lights in the window and watch at the door. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Life; Voices THE CALL OF THE COAST, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Let the roar go up from the city! Last Line: Shall strew the earth with flowers. Subject(s): Cities; Freedom; Urban Life; Liberty THE CALL OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, by J. M. MEADOR Poem Text First Line: The hum of the motor and whir of the wheel Last Line: Where the winds and waters meet. Subject(s): Country Life THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID Poem Text First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies! Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy! Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States THE CARPENTER, by AMY BRUNER ALMY Poem Text First Line: Jesus was a carpenter. He gladly plied Last Line: The light, the way of life, for all mankind. Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE CARRIERS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father was a carrier Last Line: Little brothers, I miss you. so. heavy-laden Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE CARTER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I be a carter wi' my whip Last Line: The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE CARVER'S LESSON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, no mere skill of subtle tracery Last Line: Left a message for his weary soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Carving (arts); Flowers; Life THE CASCADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mountain gray Last Line: Has lasted a thousand years. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Pools; Ponds THE CASE FOR MEMORY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedia.Php/prmmid/16429 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CASING, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years I sat in bars lying about everything Subject(s): Lies; Conduct Of Life THE CASTLE-BUILDER, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It happened on a summer's day Last Line: Cow, calf, and farm—all swam away! Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE CATBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A skulker in a thicket, loud and harsh Last Line: Enthralled, the melody is so divine. Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs THE CATTLE ROUND-UP, by H. D. C. MCLACLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Once more are we met for a season of pleasure Last Line: When we danced the day in at the cattlemen's ball. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLEMAN'S BURIAL (S.S. MAORI KING, SOUTH SEAS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bore our comrade from his bunk, we / kept him overnight Last Line: And longed for fields, and running brooks, and all my friends, and home. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Burials THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion THE CENOTAPH, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to leave this place Last Line: My pillow is my friend Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CENTER OF GRAVITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is in speaking of silences about living Last Line: Such a silence that speaks to the density / of living Subject(s): Silence; Life THE CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths THE CHAIN OF EVENTS, by CLYDE G. SPEAR Poem Text First Line: Down, down into that pit they slip Last Line: Prevent our reaching for the moon! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHALLENGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one fair lady out of court Last Line: With a fa. Variant Title(s): The Court Ballad Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Townshend, Charles, 2d Viscount; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE CHANGES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: People don't act Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHANT OF THE CROSS-BEARING CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear dis cross dis many a mile Last Line: "de cross-bearin' chile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Crosses; Life; Childhood THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy is he born and taught Last Line: And, having nothing, yet hath all. Variant Title(s): The Happy Life;a Good Man;lord Of Himself;of A Happy Life Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Life; Religion; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Theology THE CHARCOAL PAN, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Though huts like ours were rather scarce Last Line: Whose names were scarcely known. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Fire; Tents; Dead, The; Relatives THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHARMS OF LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hath life to charm us? Flowers Last Line: Life! How sumless are thy joys! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Echo (mythology); Flowers; Life THE CHASE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's a moccasin track in the drifts Last Line: "why, the darling! She's waiting to see" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE CHEERFUL HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world is ever as we take it' Last Line: "when first he said, ""let there be light." Subject(s): Creation;life THE CHESS-PLAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I played at chess with lasker, but to lose Last Line: As I played lasker, so I challenge life! Subject(s): Chess; Failure; Life; Strength THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sick of life and all the world Last Line: For god shall reign and god is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee? Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHOICE, by JOHN POMFRET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven the grateful liberty would give Last Line: All men would wish to live and die like me Subject(s): Contentment; Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHOICE, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me, indulgent heaven! A rural seat Last Line: From silent life, I'd steal into my grave! Subject(s): Quiet Life THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology THE CHRIST, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The good intent of god became the christ Last Line: Since christ in all the ways of man hath trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Much have we cursed the city. It has been Last Line: By secret acts of broad humanity. Subject(s): Cities; Humanity; Urban Life THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shining city, one Last Line: With happy wayfaring. Subject(s): Cities; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a crown upon her brow that seems Last Line: Dancing in all her jewels before the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What domination of what darkness dies this Last Line: By the thronged gods, tall, golden-coloured, joyful, young. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; God; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What structures here among god's works appear Last Line: More wealth provided, and more high. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the country harden to a town Last Line: Far in the golden city of the skies. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY (1925), by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this luxemburg of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): New York City; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck like a blur of gold across the night Last Line: The thunders of his old unconquered might. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CITY AT NIGHT, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: With light on light the city streets now blaze Last Line: We babel view, and feel our earthborn might. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE CITY CALLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little garden wall is gray Last Line: With watching the wild birds fly. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life THE CITY DWELLER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things I cannot forget: far snow in the night Last Line: The motion of men resounds like the thundering sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Thunder; Wind; Urban Life THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How long / will my memories survive? Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor THE CITY LIMITS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you consider the radiance, that it does not withold Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Country Life THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE CITY OF SALT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun-drenched Last Line: And sweet to taste. Subject(s): Cities; Mothers; Salt; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE GILDED TEAR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babylon, o babylon Last Line: City of the gilded tear? Subject(s): Babylon; Cities; Judgments; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CITY REVISITED, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey gulls drift across the bay Last Line: We have our heaven on earth -- sometimes! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do neither plight nor wed Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs THE CITY'S CROWN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Text First Line: What makes a city great? Huge piles of stone Last Line: Till every stone shall be articulate. Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Wealth; Urban Life; Theology; Riches; Fortunes THE CITY'S LOVE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one brief golden moment rare like wine Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): City & Town Life THE CITY: 1. VILLAGE FANTASY - THE QUEST, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Outside we heard the january wind Last Line: So happy as to wake in tim's back room. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY: 2. THE CITY, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: And now I roam the wide and thronging square Last Line: One listening, for what no one can say. Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness THE CLIMAX, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, by favoring fortune richly led Last Line: Superbly win all profits at a bound! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CLOUD ON THE WAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, before us, in our journey, broods a mist upon the ground Last Line: Peace and light. Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE CLUE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the virgin knows the life story Last Line: And the old spinner ravels skeins of death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE COCK PHEASANT, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Gold is the stubble Last Line: Where once it was gold. Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Pheasants THE CODE - HEROICS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three in the meadow by the brook Last Line: "discharge me? No! He knew I did just right." Subject(s): Farm Life THE COFFEE CUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The newspaper, the coffee cup, the dog's Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Dead, The THE COLOR OF LIFE, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would that we might for ever stay Last Line: Alas! What hope for such a life? Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Life THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COMBAT OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come out upon the field of life Last Line: And love and peace be all the universe? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life THE COMFORT OF THE STARS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am overmatched by petty cares Last Line: My trouble merged in wonder and in love. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Life; Love; Planets; Stars; World THE COMING DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up as usual in the dark Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE COMING OF THE HEALER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the watch of lonely mountain prayer Last Line: So shall the people praise thy name, our saviour and our god. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE COMING OF THE WORDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful words, singing words, come to me at times Last Line: Of love, and give my longing a presence and a name! Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Words; Vocabulary THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took Last Line: Vrom all the housen round. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE COMMON LIFE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's the downtown frieze Subject(s): Life THE COMMON LOT, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Call it not vain, this life Last Line: Strength to prevail! Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nations; Night; Peace; Bedtime THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE CONFESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't always acted good Last Line: "and I'm your god, and you're my man." Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CONFIRMATION, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love THE CONSECRATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely in the forest chapel Last Line: Where the myrtle blooms for ever. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Smiles; Woods THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose all-creating hands sustain Last Line: Our utmost bound, and out eternal stay! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE CONTENTED PHILOSOPHER, SELECTION, by PETER CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Deep silence reigned, and dewy light Last Line: "in converse with the sage." Subject(s): Life; Transience; Impermanence THE CONTRAST, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder wretched little girl Last Line: "we'll pray, ""god bless the temperance dwelling." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Family Life; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Relatives; Prohibition THE CONTRAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ... Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life THE CONTRAST; THE STORMY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now years have passed away, all years of toil Last Line: Divorce a vinculo with alimony. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery THE CONTRAST; THE SUNNY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the nuptial morn. Now hearts are light Last Line: Thy love and peace, and worship ever there! Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CONVERSATION, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You knew then - starting, let us say, with ether Subject(s): Life Sciences; Life THE COOUETRY OF MEN, by MAURICE MAGRE Poem Text First Line: We too, no less, have all our little arts Last Line: Both hide their viewless hearts forevermore. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Women; Nightmares THE COSSACKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For jews, the cossacks are always coming. Subject(s): Paranoia; Jews; Conduct Of Life; Judaism THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE COTTAR'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here the birds still chirp and twitter Last Line: Of a world supine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Nature; Urban Life THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE COUNTRY FAITH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the country's heart Last Line: And the best of all! Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Religion; Theology THE COUNTRY GIRL'S FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell ye hills and valleys Last Line: What lies to a beau? Subject(s): Country Life;farewell;girls; Parting THE COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Close beside the winding highway Last Line: Of god's home beyond the skies. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The THE COUNTRY LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Happy is a country life! Happy is a country life! Last Line: "age has no pain, nor youth a snare" Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY LIFE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not what we would, but what we must Last Line: Will then be beaten to the plough. Subject(s): Country Life; Home THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. END. PORTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet country life, to such unknown Last Line: Caetera desunt-- Subject(s): Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Porter, Endymion (1587-1649); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE COUNTRY LIFE; BALLAD TO A FRENCH TUNE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fondlings! Keep to th' city Last Line: You see's in the country got. Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY LOVERS; OR, ISAAC AND MARGET GOING TO TOWN, by GEORGE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come! Marget, come! - the team is at the gate! Last Line: They'll meet us ere we leave the narrow way. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE COUNTRY RETREAT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lone and lovely solitude Last Line: Is what the city yields. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COURAGE TO BE NEW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the world reciting Last Line: And their courage to be new Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE COURTIER'S RETURN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn, my heart, good morn, my life's one end Last Line: My goddess sweet, my true-love. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Light; Love THE COWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to lie on the earth now, with eyes to the ground Last Line: But the light of a changeless star. ... Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE COWBOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wears a big hat and big spurs and all that Last Line: "like your dudes, who are so melancholy" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Funny how it come about! Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED, by BURKE JENKINS Poem Text First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt! Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now you can't expect a cowboy to agitate Last Line: When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned dance. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e. Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' BALL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Tunin' up the fiddle Last Line: But this beats dancin' at the cowboys' ball. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball." Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE CRICKET BAT SINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willow and cane is all I am, with a wisp of waxen thread" Last Line: "willow and cane is all I am, yet look at the hosts I sway" Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CROSS-TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE CROSSROADS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I stood at the crossroads one day Last Line: When life on earth is done. Subject(s): Advice; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CROWDED STREET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me move slowly through the street Last Line: That rolls to its appointed end. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race THE CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CRUEL BROTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three ladies played at the ba' Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters;family Life;marriage;murder; Relatives;weddings;husbands;wives THE CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE CUP OF LIFE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cup of life, 'tis true Last Line: Take the cup, nor break it, then. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Life THE CUP OF MENALCHUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tityrus, on my cup warmly the season glows! Beneficent tityrus Last Line: Discourse. . . . Hum! Hum! . . . The season's warm on my cup, good tityrus! Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Love; Wine THE CURSE OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that flesh doth cover Last Line: Till our broken being in death is hushed and still. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life THE CUT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: As I walked in a crowded fair Last Line: And there denied life altogether. Subject(s): Life THE CZAR PASSES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: One july noon when I was twelve Last Line: After the czar had passed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Russia; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Soviet Union; Russians THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DANCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, reason, hate, did once bespeak Last Line: So love and folly were in hell. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DANCER, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dancer mended sheep and tended fences Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DARK HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where a faint light shines alone Last Line: Will be living, having died. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Life; Dead, The THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE DAY FULL SPENT, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: I do not count the day full spent Last Line: Wherein was cause to love and smile. Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Hope; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE DAY OF VISITATION, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O city that he loved, jerusalem Last Line: Our time of visitation may we know! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she lay so still and pale Last Line: Death hath found her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor. Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the enemy hath bent his bow Last Line: The grave? Just god! Thy no is written there! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia Last Line: And thine aequanimitas! Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF YE LIFE OF LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love, well may thy glorious throne Last Line: Trust not my selfe, but hang on thy sweet care. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Love; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE DECISION, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a moment before a shape Last Line: It cannot be after turned back from Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE DEEP-SEA PEARL, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of my life came not Last Line: And the deep sea covers all. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE DEMONS OF THE CITIES, by GEORG HEYM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wander through the cities night enshrouds Last Line: About their hooves, where flint-struck fires rise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE DESIRE FOR STRANGE CITIES, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each street means something other than it says Last Line: Rio, buenos aires, haifa, hong kong, prague. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DESIRE OF LIFE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O broken, old, weary desire of life Last Line: O life, dear friend, so like an enemy? Subject(s): Life THE DEVONSHIRE LANE, by JOHN MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: In a devonshire lane as I trotted along Last Line: Though marriage is just like a devonshire lane. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DIALPLATE OF LIFE, by O. W. COURSEY Poem Text First Line: Each eve the shadows eastward fall Last Line: "I ask myself: ""what does life mean?" Subject(s): Life THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and subjects ther's this mighty odds Last Line: Subjects are taught by men; kings by the gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE DIFFICULT LAND, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a difficult land. Here things miscarry Subject(s): Farm Life; Endurance; Survival; Agriculture; Farmers THE DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE DISAPPOINTED NYMPHOLEPT, by ALVA N. TURNER Poem Text First Line: The embitterment of wormwood Last Line: Which was life. Subject(s): Life THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He reached the west in a palace car where the writers Last Line: "done." Subject(s): Cowboys; Disappointment; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DISCIPLES: OVERTURE, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write of the disciples, because he Last Line: Grace to endure yet faithful to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Disciples, Twelve THE DOCTOR, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors THE DOCTOR'S STORY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good folks ever will have their way Last Line: I'll give her medicine made by men. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Physicians; Farm Life; Cures; Faith THE DOE; A FRAGMENT, FR. WANDERING WILLIE, AN UNFINISHED EARLY POEM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And - 'yonder look! Yoho! Yoho! Last Line: The vital prop of human pride. Subject(s): Daughters; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE DOLEFUL LAY OF THE WIFE OF ASAN AGA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is yon so white beside the greenwood? Last Line: As she saw her children turning from her. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DOLL, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something strange about the child tonight Last Line: When she comes looking, and it isn't here! Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Family Life; Poverty; Toys; Relatives THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When uncle sidney he comes Last Line: "come up an' git some bread!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Relatives; Bugs THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE DOOR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard going to the door Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DOUBLE CROWNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lavish roses carpeted the ways for him Last Line: The shouting of the people -- the silence of the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness THE DOUBLE HELLAS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the ice the convulsions of Last Line: To walk the sea strand of sculpt and colored stones and shells Subject(s): Life THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns; Urban Life THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast Last Line: A very dream of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE DREAM CALLED LIFE, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream it was in which I found myself Last Line: When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DREAM OF DREAMS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: However real it seem, / sleeping we or waking Last Line: Life is a dream, a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Humanity; Life; Nightmares THE DREAM SONGS: 14, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Boredom; Life; Ennui THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DROUTH AND THE FARMER, by MARVIN E. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: His body sore and tired from working Last Line: Seize its brilliance -- fire and all. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO, by BAIRD BOYD Poem Text First Line: I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas Last Line: When it's my night to hollow — whoo-pee! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Southwest; Pacific States THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man, what seem Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!" Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE DRY SPELL, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking early / with the warming house Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE DUELL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sad fruit of misapplyed valour! Here Last Line: Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of spirit? Subject(s): Fights; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air. Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EARTH CRY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blue the sky is and how sweet the air! Last Line: That god is good and you have quite forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Spiritual Life; World THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a black shambling bear Last Line: Feel her brushing it clean Subject(s): Earth; Life; World THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a dreadful bore Last Line: And join in shouting hosanna! Subject(s): China; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is to come we know not. But we know Last Line: What is to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father got me strong and straight and slim Last Line: "I am the end." Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE END OF A DAY IN THE PROVINCES, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passed the end of a day in the provinces Last Line: Bombay. Subject(s): Country Life THE END OF AN ETHNIC DREAM, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cigarettes in my mouth Last Line: My brain blistered. Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares THE END OF LIFE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Heaven; Paradise THE END OF SCIENCE FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not fantasy, this is our life. Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Modern Life THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States THE END OF YOUR LIFE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First light. This misted field Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE ENDURING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the autumn ended Last Line: Over the hill. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Life; Seasons; Fall; Optimism THE ENDURING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A misty memory - faint, far away Last Line: "have god thy friend: he passeth all the rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Life; Memory; Youth THE ENTHUSIAST; AN ODE, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once - I remember well the day Last Line: That man was made for man. Subject(s): Life THE ENTRANCE INTO ROUEN OF CHARLES THE BOLD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Counts, barons, captains, chevaliers, all gentlemen of lineage high Last Line: Flattering buzz of hushed applause through all the galleries. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Upper Classes; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EPICURE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the bowl with rosy wine! Last Line: All are stoics in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Epicureanism; Food & Eating; Life; Pleasure; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE EPIPHANY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings went upon their way Last Line: Unto thee our hearts we bring! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Twelfth Night THE EPISTLE TO MRS. SCOTT OF WAUCHOPE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind it weel in early date Last Line: Ne'er at your hallan ca'! Subject(s): Farm Life; Women THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE ETERNAL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is his garment and also heaven Last Line: Answer with mercy and law and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Creation; Future Life; Heaven; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 1, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I felt a limit should be set to these joys that rouse such envious strife Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Dreams; Life; Love; Nightmares THE ETERNAL PLAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Third act of the eternal play! Last Line: Hath still for us a stranger show. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Theater & Theaters; Fall; Stage Life THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE EXHAUSTION OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life of man is made of many lives Last Line: And life remains a lapse of feeble hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life THE EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across such distance the bellowing of the elks sag like a dowser's Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spent an hour watchjing the yellow parrots Last Line: Did I stop to listen to that music, poor love? Subject(s): Travel; Conduct Of Life; Irish; Judaism THE EYES OF LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doctors came, they looked, they said Last Line: The eyes of love, they know, they know. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Love; Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness THE FABRIC OF LIFE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is very stretchy Subject(s): Life THE FACE OF BRANCHES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And is not yet done / with living Subject(s): Death; Life THE FADED BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One gazed back sadly on his years withdrawn Last Line: We need not mourn the unsoiled blank of youth. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Trees THE FADELESS CANVAS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: For haunting moments these have stood Last Line: This canvas, pure, shall ageless be. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Memory THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAILURE, by MERLE KULOW SHERRILL Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Although I ever did my best Last Line: "you did the best you could." Subject(s): Future Life; Perseverance; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FAMILY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hineoa, tui, maina, / all of them born together Last Line: "get them!"" but I wouldn't let you." Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY FOOL, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon Last Line: They don't blame you—so long as you're funny! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Family Life; Fools; Humor; Relatives; Idiots THE FAMILY LARAMIE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Hssh! Look at ba-bee on de lettle blue chair Last Line: Will help bring dem back to me. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY MEETING, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are all here Last Line: We 're all — all here! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY'S HOMELY MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There never was a family without its homely Last Line: To smooth the little troubles out and drive the cares away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 1. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High as my heart! The quip be mine Last Line: My solace and its ornament! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers & Daughters; Relatives THE FAMILY: 2. THE DAUGHTER, TEUILA, NATIVE NAME FOR ADORNER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, child, or woman, none from her Last Line: Matron and child, my friend and scribe! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 3, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About my fields, in the broad sun Last Line: And digs like a demented beast. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 4, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall as a guardsman, pale as the east at dawn Last Line: -- and for his music, too, exacts applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The adorner of the uncomely - those Last Line: Raise my dictating voice on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 6, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What glory for a boy of ten Last Line: Rides off downhill into the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 7, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lady (so they say) but I Last Line: In roaring tree, round whistling clift. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 8, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meanwhile in the populous house apart Last Line: That pipes in the grey eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FAMILY: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These rings, o my beloved pair Last Line: It I have kissed and blessed you both. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Jewelry & Jewelers; Relatives THE FAR HORIZON, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low, thou silver moon! Last Line: The future beckons, and we go! Subject(s): Immortality; Life THE FARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tenant at will indeed I am; & yet Last Line: Who would not chuse to be freeholders there? Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Worship; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on top of the hay Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old macdonald had a farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE LINKS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray o'er the pallid links, haggard and forsaken Last Line: Only the old home welcomes them again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If seasons all were summers Last Line: And what I love not, brings. Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM; TO HAMO THORNYCROFT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the soft warm west Last Line: To chant a threnody divine. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though hoarfrost rimes the barnyard Last Line: And hits the weather vane. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still-blistering late afternoon Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER AND THE COUNSELLOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A counsel in the common pleas Last Line: "but not so many as when you were there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Law & Lawyers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's up at daybreak in the morning Last Line: And wholesome as mountain air. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer's life displays in every part Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With kindred pleasures moved, and cares opprest Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Animals; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S HEAD, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that instant there came a crash more terrific than any that had Last Line: He was rapidly shouting this as he ran from the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S INGLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whan gloaming grey out owr the welkin keeks Last Line: And a lang lasting train o' peaceful hours succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S ROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: First comes january Last Line: A prosperous new year Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture;farmers THE FARMER'S SOLILOQUY, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a thousand tongues to sing Last Line: Whilst few ask for religion. Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE FARMER'S WIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband is a good, hardworking man Last Line: "and john's come in. ""yes, I'll have supper soon!" Subject(s): Family Life; Freedom; Love - Marital; Marriage; Relatives; Liberty; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FARMSTEAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I love the homestead. There Last Line: In the hush the evenings bring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FAUN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my garden's silence and seclusion Last Line: Thy pagan soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Past THE FEARFUL CHILD, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real. Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives THE FEAST OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid thee to my mystic feast Last Line: But life in its reality! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life THE FEBRUARY SPRITE, by EDITH EARNSHAW Poem Text First Line: The february sprite is here, for see! Last Line: Wrote daffodils! Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Winter THE FIELD, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: I stand again in the field Last Line: Something he wished to keep ... And kept remembering. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIGURE IN THE FACE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six-twenty seven, and I'm at my best Last Line: I know my grasp of things exceeds my reach Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life THE FINE LADY'S LIFE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though they call me country lass Last Line: "with a 'stand by! Clear the way!'" Subject(s): Country Life; Women THE FINGER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Father/and mother Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the farmhouse old Last Line: The thoughts that burned and glowed within. Subject(s): Farm Life; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRE WITHIN, by ROBERT BRENDON Poem Text First Line: A snow - covered garden in pain Last Line: Fades, -- but the I can never die. Subject(s): Future Life; Soul; Winter; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give the engines room Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIRESIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the hearth was clean, the fire clear" Last Line: I ask no more of heaven Subject(s): Family Life;happiness; Relatives;joy;delight THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd Last Line: And smooth the bed of death. Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet writ a song of may Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FLAMES, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1972 I crossed kansas on a bus Last Line: A speechless church out of your dark / and invisible face Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we'll stay another year. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Family Life; City Snd Town Life; Wity And Humor; Apartments; Central Park, New York City; Relatives THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FLITTING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've left my own old home of homes Last Line: Where castles stood & grandeur died Subject(s): Country Life THE FLYING CHANGE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: The canter has two stride patterns, one on the right lead Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLYING GANG, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I served my time, in the days gone by Last Line: For the boys of the flying gang. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Childhood THE FOOL'S PRAYER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The royal feast was done; the king Last Line: "be merciful to me, a fool!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Life THE FOOTSTEPS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the kitchen of the old house, late Subject(s): Fathers; Past; Family Life; Relatives THE FOREST, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic forest of legend and of dream Last Line: Of red-haired centaur and white unicorn. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Life; Love; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall; Woods THE FOREST OF CRECY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: At a pace to reawake my dreaming fantasy, I started then, my mind Last Line: For a sapphire, fare thee well, my forest of crecy! Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Woods THE FOREST RANGERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red is the arch of the nightmare sky Last Line: Fight! For it is not ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Forests; Ranch Life; Woods THE FORTUNATE SPILL, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Johnnie thinks. He has his nerve! Last Line: As they fall for each other, and for me Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Courtship; Luck; Love; Relatives THE FOUNDERS, by DAVID MACLURE Poem Text First Line: Here where a giant city's pulses throb Last Line: Proud of his home, the city beautiful. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FOUNDRY GARDEN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Relatives THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FREEBORN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God made the man and bid him multiply Last Line: When this free man comes forth, what must he do? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Fathers; Hunger; Poverty; Relatives THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: BENEATH A CRUCFIX, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Come to this god, ye mourners, for he weeps Last Line: Come, all who pass: christ waits, and will remain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE FROST, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The dawn - cold, pallid, half afraid, it seems Last Line: Shall we go in? For the new day is here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a funny little fellow Last Line: "little angel he will make!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Laughter; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE FURY OF SUNDAYS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moist, moist, / the heat leaking through the hinges, Subject(s): Sabbath; Conduct Of Life; Sunday THE FUTURE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wanderer is a man from his birth Last Line: Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea. Subject(s): Future; Conduct Of Life THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE FUTURE VERDICT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How will our unborn children scoff at us Last Line: "cry ""o what fools were we!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE GAMBLERS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's a jail where men have common lot Last Line: Green farms for all, and meat and corn and wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Life THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE GARDEN, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It shines in the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Family Life; Relatives THE GARDEN OF GOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the iron cities Last Line: To sweeten the dead air. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF IREM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the garden of irem? Last Line: The blossoms are shaken by allah's breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning of the day Last Line: Now the most blessed memory of mine age. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Love THE GATE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dust is thick along the road Last Line: "shadowed cool by a cassia tree." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE GEATE A-VALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the zunsheen ov our zummers Last Line: The geäte a-vallèn to. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Family Life; Fences; Childhood; Relatives THE GENEROUS AIR, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathing the thin breath through our nostrils, we Last Line: Seeing, but for a little air, we are as dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Air; Life THE GHOST, by BLANCHE C. HARDY Poem Text First Line: The poor ghost stood by the window Last Line: "shut that door,"" said the master." Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Relatives THE GHOST OF A HUNTER, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He reads: what soul suffers in secret, the flesh shows openly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Coming Of Age THE GHOST OF YOUR WASTED PAST, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: You may scoff at ghosts for all I care Last Line: The ghost of your wasted past. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; South Dakota; Supernatural THE GIFT OF JUNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already 'neath the morning star Last Line: The best was given them, -- dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST Poem Text First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route. Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F. Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love Nature Of; Love Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GLASS HAMMER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's knickknack crystal hammer Last Line: Who hammered me goddamn 'er Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE GLASS HOUSE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I enter at dusk Last Line: Not that, she says, anything but that. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Modern Man; Relatives THE GLORIFIED, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What doth our loves befall? Last Line: Flame on in paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up the mogollons Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE GOAL IN SIGHT! LOOK UP AND SING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The goal in sight Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death THE GOAL OF THE WORLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the goal of the world is joy Last Line: The soul to its nobler realms above! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Death; Funerals; Happiness; Life; Marching & Marches; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow Last Line: Humble, but open eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE GOING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOLD OF THE GODS, by FRANCES IMOGEN WILSON Poem Text First Line: Up, up, out of my bed! Last Line: To live and to love and to dare and to be! Subject(s): Day; Life THE GOLDEN GATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim shadows gather thickly round Last Line: And then with beating heart await the opening of the golden gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GOLDEN SCHLEMIEL, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Honesty; Poverty; Conduct Of Life THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of hunger, we end too soon Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Relatives THE GOLDEN TEXT, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask for fame or power? Last Line: And not the next nor next! Subject(s): Opportunity; Conduct Of Life THE GONE YEARS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night pockets the house Last Line: Swith his long wool arms Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE GOOD OLD DAYS AT HOME SWEET HOME, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On monday my mother washed. Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Relatives THE GOOD TOWN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at it well. This was the good town once Subject(s): City & Town Life THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 7. THE WOMAN WHO CAME 'BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near him she stole, rank after rank Last Line: He comforteth her soul. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women; Cures THE GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality THE GRAVE OF A NIGGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'yes, it's true that's the grave of a nigger" Last Line: Where foam-waters gurgled their way.' Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;family Life;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;relatives;heroes;heroines; THE GRAVE, THE MINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking off from the city Subject(s): City & Town Life THE GREAT AUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buns harden like pomanders Last Line: With harsh yellow soap Subject(s): Family Life; Aunts; Relatives THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GREAT CALAMITY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macfierce 'un came to whiskeyhurst Last Line: To see two strong men weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed THE GREAT CITIES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded Last Line: And in the heart of man I have set the city. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GREAT QUESTION, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waves, they are wildly heaving Last Line: And never be sick any more. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE GREAT RACE PASSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were the fair-haired achaeans Last Line: The great race is passing. Subject(s): Modern Life THE GREATER PATIENCE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passionless and imperceptible drifting Last Line: But doubt; the patient only can believe? Subject(s): God; Life; Patience THE GRETNA GREEN BLACKSMITH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though my face is all smutty not fit to be seen Last Line: With his rang, tang, hammer and nail. Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Life; Tears THE GROATSWORLD OF WIT: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deceiving world, that with alluring toys Last Line: My time is loosely spent, and I undone. Variant Title(s): A Palinode;a Death-bed Lament;miserrimus Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Regret; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE GROSS CLINIC, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a sister who takes care of animals, whose artistry is flesh Subject(s): Gross, Samuel D. (1805-1884); Surgery; Family Life; Relatives THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood Last Line: A woman wise men canonize. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE GUM GATHERER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There overtook me and drew me in Last Line: And bring it to market when you please. Subject(s): Farm Life THE GUNDAROO BULLOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there's some that breeds the devon that's as solid as a / stone Last Line: But you mustn't ask for 'bullock' when you go to gundaroo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Ranch Life THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HALF MOON SHOWS A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To finished loss or finished gain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Life; Joy; Pain THE HAMMOCK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand pushes me away Subject(s): Life; Love THE HAPPIEST DAY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was early may, I think Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Relatives; Joy; Delight THE HAPPY FARMER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye the farmer at his plough Last Line: The farmer's life may be. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HAPPY LIFE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll purge, my friend, the humors that still devour Last Line: This is my kingdom -- to live contented. Subject(s): Life; Money; Muses; Soul THE HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A book, a friend, a song, a glass Last Line: And a chaste, laughter-loving lass. Subject(s): Life; Pleasure THE HAPPY LITTLE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, gudhand, have you sold the cow Last Line: To be all in all through life. Subject(s): Marriage; Humor; Farm Life THE HAPPY MAN, by GILLES MENAGE Poem Text First Line: La galisse now I wish to touch Last Line: Deprived him of his life. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be. Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HARP OF DAVID, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: When the night her vision is weaving Last Line: Is a youthful poet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE HARVEST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise now and go into the fields, to my love who / is at work Last Line: Where peace is and the quiet of the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Peace; Agriculture; Farmers THE HAWTHORN BUD AND THE STAR, by EDOUARD SCHURE Poem Text First Line: The hawthorn bud said to the star Last Line: "-- to love and die within an hour!" Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE HAYFORK, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could get up from this kitchen table, I think Last Line: At the grain n the wood of this kitchen table Subject(s): Farm Life THE HEALER; TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN WITH DORE'S PICTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So stood of old the holy christ Last Line: Shall walk the rounds with thee. Subject(s): Dore, Gustave (1832-1883); Healing; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Cures THE HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly the cool breath of the coming eve Last Line: Full on his beaming countenance -- arose! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the overwork of life Last Line: I full of christ and christ of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Life; Soul; Work; Workers THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HERETIC: 3. MOCKERY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, I return to you on april days Last Line: For this, o god, my silence -- and my doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HERITAGE FOREGONE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child's small height doth see Last Line: "cry, ""he is changed indeed. Why, he has grown a man!" Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy Last Line: And performers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE HILL FARMER SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the farmer, stripped of love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HILLS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not destitute of lore Last Line: Here may I live and die! Variant Title(s): Beauties Of The Cumberland Subject(s): Country Life; Nature THE HILLS OF OLD VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'native' hills of old vermont Last Line: Amidst the hills of old vermont. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE HINT BEYOND, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He and the wilder part of earth Last Line: A hint of blue, a ghost of gold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers Last Line: It up for what seemed like months or years Subject(s): History; Life; Historians THE HIVE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To do something with it: to make something of it Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HOARDER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something there Last Line: "I am not an idler Subject(s): Family Life; Dolls THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come sons of summer, by whose toile Last Line: But for to make it spring againe. Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest THE HOLE WE'VE BEEN DIGGING, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I've come home, put on all my shoes, Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Relatives THE HOMESICK COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired and sick of the city Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Homesickness THE HOMESTEADER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind-swept and fire-swept and Last Line: "I've found a bigger meaning for the little word called ""home." Subject(s): Family Life; Homesteaders; Relatives THE HOMING INSTINCT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There we see him, driving Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HONEY BEAR, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness THE HOUSE, by GENEVIEVE BUCKLEY STARR Poem Text First Line: When mother looks at me and says Last Line: And not mom's little son. Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Relatives THE HOUSE AT EVENING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the school-ground it would start Last Line: Dim worlds aflame. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Relatives THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock ticks on the old oak stair Last Line: Alone. . . . He understands. Subject(s): Fear; Kisses; Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE HOUSE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVED WAS OLD, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Fear; Household Employees; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The life of the body's a cage Last Line: That she be not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 95. THE VASE OF LIFE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the vase of life at your slow pace Last Line: Stands empty till his ashes fall in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Failure; Life; Success THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 96. LIFE THE BELOVED, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thy friend's face, with shadow of soul o'erspread Last Line: And the red wings of frost-fire rent the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Life THE HOUSE ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the ragged source of memory Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Relatives THE HOUSE WAS JUST TWINKLING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE HUDDLED ONES BEHOLD ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has known death to hover near her bed Last Line: And their repose the trust that each confers? Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The THE HUDSON, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: With tranquil majesty our river flows Last Line: As souls melt theirs in death's infinity. Subject(s): Cities; Hudson River; Hudson Valley, New York; Urban Life THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God sometimes sends Last Line: Beneath the sod. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE HUMAN TOUCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High thoughts and noble in all lands Last Line: These need I most, and now, and here. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Thought; Touch (sense); Thinking THE HUNGRY GAP-TIME, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late august, before the harvest, every one of us worn down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was late in mild october, and the long autumnal rain Last Line: Send up our thanks to god! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKING CHAMP, by RAY MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Fast, grasping hands both lithe and strong Last Line: A king of toil, a husking champ. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HYACINTHS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the good ashplant; stuff the old grey cap Last Line: Leap up with immortality in your breast! Subject(s): Country Life; Spring THE IDEAL, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad, sweet dream! It fell upon my soul Last Line: To welcome my approach to thine own spirit-land. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Longing; Nature; Nightmares THE IDEAL CITY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you whom god hath called and set apart Last Line: To serve. Subject(s): Cities; Worship; Urban Life THE IDEAL FOUND, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet Last Line: What there thou ever wert, a beautiful, bright dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE IDEAL HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived for forty years, dear wife Last Line: That you are wrong and I am right. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE IMMORTAL GODS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods can't die, poor fellows Last Line: When we are gone to sleep. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE IMPRISONED INNOCENTS (OR THE COMPLAINT OF A PHILOSOPHER OF FAMILY), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning I said to my wife Last Line: Of heirs to adam's sin! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE INITIATE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. John of the cross wore dark glasses Subject(s): City & Town Life THE INN ALBUM: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occupied by the elm; and, as its shade Last Line: No: let the curtain fall! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE INNER CHAMBER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer court I was singing Last Line: Or the meaning of what I sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Voices THE INNER LIFE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jittery, sleepless, I hover over a chair Subject(s): Insomnia; Life; Sleeplessness THE INNOCENCE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Looking to the sea, it is Subject(s): Life THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE INSULT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've swum the colorado where she runs close down Subject(s): Cowboys;drinks & Drinking;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE INTERVIEW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I represent the morning shout. We hear you are dying Last Line: "finally: are you dead and, if so, can you describe it for us, for your Subject(s): Journalists; Death; Conduct Of Life THE INVADERS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through dim mysterious, darkened halls Last Line: You cannot keep the children out. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE INVESTMENT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INVITATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, thrushes, blackcaps, finches, all Last Line: Through all this leafy county! Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Courtship THE INVITATION FROM A COUNTRY COTTAGE, by MARTHA (FOWKE) SANSOM Poem Text First Line: Close to the fireside confined Last Line: Where all things wear an honest face. Subject(s): Country Life THE JESTER'S SERMON, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair Last Line: And why? Because the motley fool so wise a sermon made. Subject(s): Life THE JET LAG OF THE NEWLY DEAD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One definition of jet lag is the process of the soul Last Line: About me than anyone, but you're quickly forgetting Variant Title(s): The Therapist's Funera Subject(s): Future Life; Jet Lag; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JOURNEY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our journey had advanced Last Line: And god at every gate. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JOURNEY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN: A DEATHBED, by JOHN HAWTHORN Poem Text First Line: A little house there stood within a glen Last Line: Before a wretch that used his parents ill.... Subject(s): Family Life; Ingratitude; Poverty; Relatives; Ungratefulness THE JOURNEY OF LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the waning moon I walk at night Last Line: With warmth, and certainty, and boundless light. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE JOY OF LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How sweet is life, how beautiful Last Line: As one whose breath is full of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE KEY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cross of calvary Last Line: Of life reborn of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE KEY FOUND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a strange wild wail around, a wail of wild unrest Last Line: And life becomes the prelude of the everlasting song! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KING, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O sham, who sittest boldly on the throne Last Line: "its tardy homage and all cry, ""the king!" Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Mansions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING OF NORMANDY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: In normandy there reigned a king Last Line: Oh was n't he a noble king?' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Normandy, France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were ten maidens in the green corn Last Line: The pains of hell for the king's daughter. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR YOU', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All power is near. The sun flings everywhere Last Line: The reaching cross of calvary is near Subject(s): Heaven; Conduct Of Life THE KINGS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said unto his angel Last Line: "die, driven against the wall!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE KINGS PROPHECY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stoick could his steely brest containe Last Line: Sawe too fewe dayes, to see too many yeares. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; Treason & Traitors; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism THE KNAPSACK TRAIL, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the wide and common road Last Line: Till sudden—we are there! Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow, like grief for one just dead Last Line: Ah, do you hear the knocking at the door? Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too Last Line: Only time! Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LABYRINTH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a crooked labyrinth, and we Last Line: Those never clouded, nor that overcast. Subject(s): Life THE LADIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I've taken my fun where I've found it Last Line: Are sisters under their skins! Subject(s): Army Life; Women; Drills & Minor Tactics THE LADIES OF LEWISTON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pour syrup over their husbands' silence Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAMENT OF THE CAPTIVE, by RICHARD HENRY WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like the summer rose Last Line: But none, alas ! Shall mourn for me ! Variant Title(s): Life;stanzas Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE LAND OF BEYOND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ever you heard of the land of beyond Last Line: Behold it, our land of beyond! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one can take away from me Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea! Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean THE LARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I, below the mornen sky Last Line: An' uncaught larks ageän mid sound. Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Larks; Agriculture; Farmers; Skylarks THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LAST COMPLAINT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me! An old man said Last Line: My last look of the clear moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The THE LAST DEMAND, by FAITH BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Life, you have bruised me and chilled me; fate, you Last Line: I demand to conquer memory! I demand that I — forget. Subject(s): Aging; Experience; Life; Memory; Wisdom THE LAST MAN'S CLUB, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: LIFE A GLASS WINDOW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him lean Last Line: Knuckles the pane, and. ... Subject(s): Death; Life; Windows; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king looks well, red in its proper place Last Line: B. Nought: let her hatch. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: RECOLLECTION OF EARLY LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: My life unfolds. Subject(s): Books; Life; Reading THE LAST MAN: SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it then be, that the earth loved some city Last Line: Yet legible? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plantin' time's already here Last Line: As to lose his soul. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LAST OF THE FAMILY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, gregory! You are come, I see, to join us Last Line: God make us ready, gregory, when it comes. Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Family Life; Funerals; God; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Burials THE LAST PORTAGE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age shall never come near my soul Last Line: The lord of life commanding. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion Last Line: The poet of later on. Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers THE LAY OF THE LEGION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in the legion Last Line: Like a regular poltroon! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; War; Wine THE LEADERS, by LOUISE E. V. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The maiden read the spring time's idyl through Last Line: Death but the entrance to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism THE LEAF PILE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now here is a typical children's story Last Line: The mark of my hand a blush on my son's cheek Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sons; Relatives THE LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down! Last Line: Can the world end in a night? Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LEES AND THE LAWSONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you call on the lees, north of bloomsbury-square Last Line: Is not the right road to his bosom. Subject(s): Life; London; Singing & Singers THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a roundup on the gily Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!" Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers THE LEPER (2), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the leper! Room!' and, as he came Last Line: Prostrate at jesus' feet, and worshipped him. Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Leprosy; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Lepers THE LESSING TABLE, by ADA LIMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner table was too small Last Line: Do something, do something Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness THE LESSON, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earnest are the easiest deceived Subject(s): Tadpoles; Family Life; Truth; Relatives 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 LIBELLED BENEFACTOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They warned me by all that affection could urge Last Line: "but short-sighted mortals have christened me death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIBERTY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the toll of the passing bell Last Line: And rush from my own sad thoughts away. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Bells; Coffins; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hath momus descended -- the god of mirth Last Line: But mathews alone has such trophies won! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Life; Dead, The THE LIFE OF JOHN HERITAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the cotswolds in eighteen-forty or so Last Line: Fall in with strange foot-fellows on the road. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LIFE OF M., by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The true test of a man is a bunt. So kiss me! Last Line: Besides, the gaucho is almost here. Subject(s): Life THE LIFE OF RILEY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bradypod arboreal Last Line: Oh, soporific sloth! Subject(s): Life THE LIFE OF TOWNS: APOSTLE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your death Last Line: Beautiful the nerves pouring around in her like palace fire Subject(s): City & Town Life; Death THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting itself Subject(s): City & Town Life; Homecoming; Waiting THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fear THE LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mourning THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): City & Town Life; Winter THE LIFE OF TOWNS: SEPTEMBER TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fear is that Last Line: Brother from the police Subject(s): City & Town Life THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Reached us Subject(s): City & Town Life; Spring THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): City & Town Life; Sin THE LIFE SO SHORT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Subject(s): Life; Transience; Mortality; Birds THE LIFE THAT IS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who so long hast pressed the couch of pain Last Line: For his meek followers, shall assign thy place. Subject(s): Life THE LIFE TO COME, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city where god's happy children Last Line: Then I should ask of god no more. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Future Life; Music & Musicians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LIFE WE LIVE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This life, my friends, is just the thing; one Last Line: Mirth, rear up and bless your native earth. Subject(s): Life Change Events THE LIFE-FORCE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the sun I saw a bird Last Line: Against the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Sun THE LIFE-POWER, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the marvel of existence Last Line: Infinitely innocent. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Life THE LIFE-TIDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each wave that breaks upon the strand Last Line: For all eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life THE LIGATURE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days are zigzags through a mine field; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LIGHT KEEPER, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A night without ships. Foghorns called into walled cloud, and you Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Lighthouses; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIES, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: From boyhood to manhood we grow Last Line: It is the light which never dies. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Maturity THE LINKS OF LOVE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a driver - club Last Line: To halve the round of life with me? Subject(s): Life; Love THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LITTLE BROTHER POEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep seeing your car in the streets Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,' Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood THE LITTLE FARM, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired, I went away from town Last Line: And bright dawn in his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little man dwelt in a little town Last Line: A little worm is working on him now Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE LITTLE ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones, ah god, these tiny nestlers! Last Line: The bitter bread of life! Subject(s): Children; God; Life; Childhood THE LITTLE THEATRE, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They coaxed him from his barren lonely claim Last Line: He's locked with life and fate at elsinore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life THE LITTLE THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little things around the house are what will / hurt the most Last Line: The little things around the house are what will help the most. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size Last Line: But the little town o' tailholt's good enough fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Towns; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so little in its vanities Last Line: To their own wretched level nobler things. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life; Vanity THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE LIVING PRESENT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, let us slight no pleasant spring Last Line: As if himself and god were all. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LOAD OF PEARLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Will no one stop that blackbird now Last Line: Brings diamonds into every eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life; Pearls THE LOCATION OF THINGS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Why from this window am I watching leaves? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE LOEHRS AND THE HAMMONDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, bud! O bud!' rang out a gleeful call Last Line: Taffy and pop-corn -- so with cheers they went. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE LONELY, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Text First Line: The lonely who are lapped in winding sheets of moan Last Line: Know that ecstatic joy of sorrow lived alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Grief; Life; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE LONG DAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning I ate a banana Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LONG ROAD, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Down through our troubled age-long puzzlement Last Line: Our feet must climb again, and yet again. Subject(s): God; Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is come—is come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE RANGE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Or the dull gaze lifts Last Line: To warmer crests with their glimpse of sea. Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light Last Line: The real and only sanity to me Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; SUNG BY MR. MATTHEWS FOR THE SPRING MEETING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the ninth of november Last Line: All, all to see the lord mayor's show. Subject(s): Cities; Festivals; Mayors; Urban Life; Fairs; Pageants THE LORDS OF PAIN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lords of pain are mightier by night Last Line: Whom music leads to sleep, and sleep to death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE LOST ATLANTIS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in our soul-seas there are sunken hopes Last Line: The mute memorials of the lapsed years. Subject(s): Atlantis; Hope; Life; Mythology - Classical; Past; Sea; Soul; Optimism; Ocean THE LOVE OF GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The love of god is limitless Last Line: Eternal life to man. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 56, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flesh you have loved Last Line: Are takng me Subject(s): Life THE LOVERS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keeping hope in the field of next year's harvest Last Line: Dreams, he finds her barren and love spent. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE LOWER WORLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a time poor pluto sigh'd thus Last Line: "a faded life, love lost for ever!" Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LULL OF ETERNITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a voice has echoed the cry for a lull in life Last Line: "soon shall a ""better thing"" be thine, the lull of eternity." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race THE LYRICS POET'S APOLOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strive to probe to other hearts, and find Last Line: In syllables of self, and can no other way. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Nature; Poetry & Poets THE MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: Practice resurrection Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE MAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are feverish and dull Last Line: So moan yourself to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Life; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The THE MADONNA OF THE CURB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the curb of a city pavement Last Line: Madonna of the curb! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Cities; Poverty; Childhood; Urban Life THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MAID-MARTYR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only you'd have me speak Last Line: Truly my soul is silent unto god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Martyrs; Soul; Time; Dead, The THE MAIDENS OF ENGLAND; ON PRESENTATION OF A BIBLE TO PRINCESS ROYAL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the pathless ocean waters Last Line: Joy-imparting holy dove! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE MAKER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made the country Last Line: Of great renown? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Creation; God; Mankind; Towns; Human Race THE MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour Last Line: A second mammoth dies. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE CENTAUR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not change -- did not the waters Last Line: Thou hast a goal! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Centaurs; Life; Time THE MAN CHRIST, by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: He built no temple, yet the farthest sea Last Line: The kingdom of the truth. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Theology THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain Last Line: Breathed by the deity. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE MAN WHO WAS AWAY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow Last Line: The mystery of peter's life -- the man who was away. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Widows & Widowers THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Urban Life THE MAPLE TREE OVER THE WAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the queen of the forest we sing Last Line: Like the maple leaves over the way. Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Maple Trees; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE MARCHING FEET, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, drums to the fore! Last Line: The far-off calling of a drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Army Life; Drums; Marching & Marches; Musical Instruments; Drills & Minor Tactics THE MARCHING MORROWS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gird thee well for courage Last Line: To lead them round the sun. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Freedom; Future THE MARGINS WHERE WE LIVE BY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overnight, the air froze Last Line: "the margins will always be the space Subject(s): Native Americans; Conduct Of Life THE MARRIED MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's an old pard of mine that sits by his door Last Line: When I'm tired from the wind and the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Family Life; Relatives THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARTYR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat! Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE MARVEL OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O life! How like the common-breathed air Last Line: Mourning for wisdom, panting to be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news stirred first in very dead of winter Subject(s): Modern Life THE MATERIALIST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul has left its tent of clay Last Line: "when death said, ""you may die." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MATRIX, by AMY LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goaded and harassed in the factory Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence THE MCCARTHY HEARINGS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything's under suspicion Subject(s): Army-mccarthy Hearings (1954); Family Life; Relatives THE MEAL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama, I never stop seeing you there Subject(s): Food & Eating; Mothers; Family Life; Relatives THE MEASURE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I continue in my gbariye. Subject(s): Life Choices; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?' Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?" Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE MELON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a melon fresh from the garden Subject(s): Melons; Death; Hornets; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives THE MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road Last Line: That's suffering to croak. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good servant! Up, and saddle quick Last Line: And mute and silent be. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up, boy! Arise, and saddle quick Last Line: But never speak a word. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!" Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE METAMORPHOSIS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bumping agsinst rock in the dark Last Line: From rock to rock Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jasper a swayne vpon the cotswold hill Last Line: (at the desire of iasper) thus repeated. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Walnuts THE METEMPSYCHOSIS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the petty passions of the crowd Last Line: The catacombs and fragments of old worlds. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE METROPOLITAN TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked together in the dusk Last Line: Was reckoned from that hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Metropolitan Life Building, New York; Skyscrapers THE MIDGET DANCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scan the storied pages Last Line: Finds life . . . A midget dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life; Love; Nations; War; Youth THE MIDNITE SHOW, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red-wigglers, night-crawlers Subject(s): Country Life THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE MILKMAIDS EPITHALAMIUM, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy to the bridegroom and the bride Last Line: To get a man to pity me. Subject(s): Country Life; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The; Relatives THE MINIATURE CITY, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aging family life fades out, subsides Subject(s): Family Life; Transience; Relatives; Impermanence THE MINNEAPOLIS POEM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder how many old men last winter Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Minneapolis; City & Town Life; Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE MINUTE-GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute-guns. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Sea; Wind; Optimism; Ocean THE MIRACULOUS CATCH, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The tidings seemed so heaven-sent, - an uncle dead so a propos Last Line: And about their floats the little fish waltzed as sweetly as heart could wish. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE MISER'S MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mouldering mansion, whose embattled side Last Line: And angels hymn'd the rich man's soul to heaven. Subject(s): Future Life; Generosity; Hospitality; Misers; Wealth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Riches; Fortunes THE MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE MISSION, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Back there then I lived Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Fathers THE MODERN SAINT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her time with equal prudence silvia shares Last Line: An artful woman makes a modern saint. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Saints; Sin THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure poetry of paranoia was his as he emerged Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE MOONLIGHT'S DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I wake at night, all the house at rest? Subject(s): Family Life; Sleep; Dreams; Night; Relatives; Nightmares; Bedtime THE MOOR, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where yonder leaning hill-side roves Last Line: But pass no door of man's abode. Subject(s): Country Life; Moors (land) THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning that follows my death, the sun Last Line: And low gray clouds will sweep over this neighborhood Subject(s): Death; Life THE MOUNTAIN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black summer, black vermont. Who sees Last Line: Really there? Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont THE MOUNTAIN FARM, by WALTER HARD Poem Text First Line: The farm lay along the slope of the mountain Last Line: "it'd jest be a worriment." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE MOURNING GARMENT: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was near a thicky shade Last Line: Was not more in thessaly. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MULBERRY TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sweet brier grows in the merry green wood Last Line: And they drop like dead leaves from the mulberry - tree Subject(s): Life;mulberry Trees THE MULLINS FARM, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poet's Biography First Line: The sun through the window Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I paused not to question the devil's suggestion Last Line: By devils and furies! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Confessions; Curses; Life; Murder THE MUSIC ONE LOOKS BACK ON, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In early autumn, there's a concerto Last Line: And geese, geese flying flying south out of winter Subject(s): Guests; Family Life; Friendship THE MYSTERY OF LIFE, by JOHN GAMBOLD Poem Text First Line: So many years I've seen the sun Last Line: Thoughts, virtues, friendships, griefs and joys. Subject(s): Life THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood THE MYSTIC, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quest that calls me Last Line: Where just beyond lies god. Subject(s): God; Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MYTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She renamed me after a bridge in the hopes Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE MYTH, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The faithful watchers stood Subject(s): Life; Childhood Memories THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house had gone to bring again Last Line: Not to believe the phoebes wept. Subject(s): Country Life THE NEST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life... Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW BUDDHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonbeams, like intangible flowers Last Line: Night, the only buddha that attains to it. Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Buddha; Buddhists; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE NEW COTTAGE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On earth two lovers can you meet more thrilled and overjoyed than Last Line: The vale of charms that never cease? Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Rain THE NEW PLANET, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: Twas there before man learned to watch the skies Last Line: And our new neighbor's staggering distance span. Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Soul; Spiritual Life THE NEW STYLE WESTERN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two horsemen Last Line: Of living together Subject(s): Farm Life; Rio Grande River; West (u.s.); Agriculture; Farmers; Southwest; Pacific States THE NEWBORN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mannikin who just now Last Line: Again in you Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Life Change Events THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sit at the kitchen table Subject(s): Farewell; Family Life THE NIGHT COURT, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call rose costara!' / insolent, she comes Last Line: Call each and all! Call us! And then call her! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Novels & Novelists; Social Protest; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE NO-LONGER-MERRY ANCIENT MONARCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old king cole was a merry old soul Last Line: And called for his fiddlers three. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Old Age; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE NOON ORGAN CONCERT, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Text First Line: Ave maria, he started to play Last Line: In the babble of voices and patter of feet. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Mary (name); Mothers; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NOTHING REDEMPTION, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men's voices rose and fell far away Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE NOVICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love one and he loveth me Last Line: And shadowy branches wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Nature; Dead, The THE OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live thy life / young and old Last Line: Naked strength. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE OBLATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask nothing more of me sweet Last Line: Here, that must love you to live. Subject(s): Life; Love THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OBSEQUIES IN ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victor emanuel! - of prophetic name Last Line: Who made her italy! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Rome, Italy; Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me and ed and a stretcher Last Line: "we'll 'owl in their fyces: 'no-o-o!'" Subject(s): Army Life; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference Last Line: Hawse! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside Last Line: And broken a woman's heart Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters; THE OLD BREVOORT FARM, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A snug little farm was the old brevoort Last Line: Eleventh street's not opened through, to this day! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cloud before the sun Last Line: If sadness fits the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed THE OLD COW MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rode across a valley range Last Line: No later than I was! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Aging; Cowboys; Fences; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'll sing you a good old song, that was made by a good old pate" Last Line: Which reared those fine old english gentlemen all of the olden time Subject(s): Death;life;singing & Singers; "dead, The; THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth THE OLD HAYMOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old haymow's the place to Last Line: Ac' ha'f-way like a gentleman! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD LOVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my door I step into Last Line: In the green wood to walk with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Steadfast and serene Last Line: Old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Old Age; Wisdom THE OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, ye libellers! Your page Last Line: "young septuagenary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Truth; Youth THE OLD MAN'S WISH, by WALTER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I live to grow old (for I find I go down) Last Line: Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.' Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age THE OLD MASS SHANDRYDAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years Last Line: When I saw it o'er the tail-board of the old mass shandrydan. Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Mass; Relatives THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well! This is a comfort, now - the air is mild as may Last Line: There can't be rivers there and fields, without some sort o' farm! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Farm Life; Pennsylvania; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD PLANTATION, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I'm sick an' tired an' lonely Last Line: Kiss 'em good-night now forever—an' then lay me down to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Slavery; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs THE OLD STORY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although he didn't / love me, I loved him Last Line: She wept for him Subject(s): Love Unrequited; Family Life THE OLD VERMONT FARM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every day some village care ...' Last Line: It's good enough for me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD WIVES' [OR WIFE'S] TALE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How now, fellow frolic! What, all amort? Last Line: Breakfast. Subject(s): Country Life THE OLD-TIME FAMILY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It makes me smile to hear 'em tell each other Last Line: I never heard my father or my mother wish for less. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE ONION, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The onion, now that's something else Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE OPEN DOOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery of life Last Line: And crown his plan. Subject(s): Earth; God; Hearts; Hope; Life; Soul; World; Optimism THE OPEN HAPPENS IN THE MIDST OF BEINGS; MARTIN HEIDEGGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The coroner said a white picket fence Last Line: On the riverbed in a cold white spout... Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Life Change Events; Pleasure; Palmistry THE OPEN STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice Last Line: Send us word each race you start in and we'll back you every time.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Racing THE OPTIMIST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turbid from london's noise and smoke Last Line: Since I am happy, all is good. Subject(s): Country Life THE ORATION; AFTER CAVAFY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boldest thing I ever did was to save a savior Last Line: It was the speech of my life. Subject(s): Life; Speech; Women; Women's Rights; Oratory; Orators; Feminism THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon an early walk to spy Last Line: Far down with mellow orchards to endow. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Gypsies; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Gipsies THE ORCHARD FEAST, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, leave the ladders hidden up the boughs Last Line: And lift our loads between us and go home. Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE ORGY ON PARNASSUS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You phrase-tormenting fantastic chorus Last Line: And here was a bard shall outlast you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Words; Vocabulary THE ORPHAN GIRL (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'no home, no home!' cried a little girl" Last Line: Where there's room for bread for the poor Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life;orphans;poverty; Foundlings THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE OTHER STARS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE PAINFUL PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That all mankind dependeth upon the painful plough Subject(s): Farm Life;plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture;farmers THE PARABLE, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: If thou hast money for two loaves of bread Last Line: While golden daffodils delight the soul. Subject(s): Fables; Life; Prophecy & Prophets; Soul; Allegories THE PARCAE, OR, THREE DAINTY DESTINIES. THE ARMILET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three lovely sisters working were Last Line: Or cut, if cut by you. Subject(s): Life THE PARIAH, by ROSE TOOTHAKER MILLILKEN Poem Text First Line: I saw her kneeling in the garden plot Last Line: I somehow knew her soul had found its god. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PARSON'S COMFORTER, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The parson goes about his daily ways Last Line: That comforts him who comes to comfort thee? Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night Last Line: Yet sail another sea. Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD: PASTORAL 3. THE HAPPY COUNTRYMAN, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can live in heart so glad Last Line: To become a country lad! Variant Title(s): The Country Lad;worldly Paradise;merry Country Lad Subject(s): Country Life THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world Last Line: Forever near, yet oh how far! Subject(s): Beauty; Future; Life; Night; Past; Bedtime THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've looked, and trusted, sighed, and loved my last! Last Line: Dear brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Life THE PASTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring Last Line: I sha'n't be gone long. - you come too. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life THE PASTURE BARS, by CHARLES H. STONE Poem Text First Line: The evening sky is all aglow Last Line: "co' boss, co' boss, co' boss." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails THE PATH OF LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first to youth's enchanted eyes Last Line: And bid thy heart be gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PATHWAY OF THE LIVING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pathway of the living is our ever-present Last Line: For the angels have the keeping of the pathway of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Life THE PEACE OF GOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for peace, o lord! Last Line: Thou keepest for those hearts who love thee best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Peace; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PEN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Mightier than the sword thou art Last Line: Mightier than the sword art thou. Subject(s): Life; Pens & Pencils THE PENTECOSTAL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few miles north of thompson falls Last Line: Their twelve-year-old witness, their runaway daughter. Subject(s): Family Life; Hallucinations & Illusions; Montana; Relatives THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He isn't a religious man Subject(s): Neighbors; Family Life; Fatners; Transience; Mortality; Happiness; Relatives; Impermanence; Joy; Delight THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hate the people of this village Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PERFECT LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who knows the perfect life on earth? Last Line: And not inflict it on another? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The THE PHILANTHROPIST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a brother and sister Last Line: Had lately carried him off. Subject(s): Death; Food & Eating; Funerals; Life; Dead, The; Burials THE PHOTOS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister in her well-tailored silk blouse hands me Subject(s): Family Life; Photography & Photographers; Relatives THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 1. THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Complete the altar stands; my task is done Last Line: "but by your hand am I forever crowned!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Passion; Saints THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 3. THE CHILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad son of earth, if ever to thy care Last Line: "I come!"" I cried; and with the cry awoke." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Earth; Fate; Life; Saints; Childhood; World; Destiny THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PICTURE-BOOK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black walnut logs in the chimney Last Line: And bearing the gold on his back. Subject(s): Family Life THE PILGRIM SOUL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the winding mazes of windy streets Last Line: That all who beheld him were born once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mankind; Human Behavior; Human Race; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PILGRIMS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is your lady of love, o ye that pass Last Line: That man may reap and eat and live by day Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Dead, The THE PILGRIMS OF THIBET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road to llassa Last Line: Till we to nirvana come. Subject(s): Greed; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Tibet; Avarice; Cupidity THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PLAY, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: I watched you curve your arm over the back of Last Line: But when they asked me about the play, I could not remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Art & Artists; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PLAY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act first, this earth, a stage so gloom'd with woe Last Line: In some fifth act what this wild drama means. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Life; Plays & Playwrights THE POEM WRITTEN ON THE BODY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Death looks there, but we are here Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Love; Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For an image of life and death Last Line: Both life and death are fine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 102, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I retired to the edge of a forest Last Line: Of bobbing ducks on the waves Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Simplicity; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 107, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My scrolls are filled with the poems of immortals Last Line: And hum a verse or two Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 123, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wealth and position attract distant kin Last Line: Even leather shoes wear thin Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Poverty; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 180, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reached cold mountain and all cares stopped Last Line: And trust the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 204, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the stream to watch the jade flow Last Line: What do I need in the faraway world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My true home is on cold mountain Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 206, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it about people that makes me sigh Last Line: They're sent chasing will-o'-the-wisps and lies Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 209, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When water is so clear it sparkles Last Line: From such awareness nothing hides Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 21, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents stayed busy enough Last Line: Woodcutters often stop by Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Idleness; Relatives; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 220, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I stay in the village Last Line: And sparrows will dance like lords Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cities; Villages; Urban Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 233, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives are circumscribed by dust Last Line: Suddenly we're old men Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Life; Mortality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 240, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have six brothers Last Line: Everybody praises Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Punishment; Shame; Half-brothers; Relatives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 241, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see people everywhere Last Line: End your attachment to form Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Parents; Buddha; Buddhists; Relatives; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 249, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I so troubled Last Line: Entrust myself to the hills for good Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 254, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad creatures of a transient existence Last Line: Back and forth on the three hateful paths Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Life; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the joys of the mountains Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 262, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the people I see Last Line: Blooming at dawn gone by dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 264, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on top of a boulder Last Line: And a lotus comes out of the mud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 265, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hermits hide from society Last Line: Aren't stained by the muddy world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Happiness; Hermits; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 269, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daily concerns are endless Last Line: Ride the white ox outside Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Life; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs Last Line: A mind without a care Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 279, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid a thousand clouds and streams Last Line: Silent like a river in fall Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 54, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gathering lotuses we called to each other Last Line: Letting our thoughts surge on Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 73, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos was happy / it neither ate not peed Last Line: The crowd yells run for your life Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chaos; Chinese Literature; Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 92, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is boundlessly high Last Line: Blind men asking the color of milk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Life THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 11, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A son demands a wife Last Line: But not in your book of crimes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Family Life; Marriage; Wealth; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 5, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a place without limits Last Line: It wouldn't mean much to me Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot. Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America THE POET GOES TO INDIANA, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you a half-dozen things Subject(s): Indiana; Country Life THE POET IN ITALY; IMITATED AFTER RENATO RINALDI'S 'IL GIROVAGO', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ragged sweet little fellow Last Line: "death comes, with a grin, to see." Subject(s): Country Life; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Italians THE POET TO THE CLOUD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft white cloud in the sky Last Line: Such manner of life as thine. Subject(s): Clouds; God; Heaven; Life; Paradise THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: A WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is a woman: therefore, I a man Last Line: But man's true mother, and his equal wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Women; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE POET'S JOURNAL: AUTUMNAL DREAMS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the maple turns to crimson Last Line: In the autumns of the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Life; Past; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: BEFORE THE BURIAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the night is overpast Last Line: And the rainbow for the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bells; Fear; Life; Singing & Singers THE POET'S JOURNAL: FIRST EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day had come, the day of many years Last Line: Which she as fondly answered, thus he read: -- Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: LOVE RETURNED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy when first we met Last Line: And rooted in my heart of hearts! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Youth; Joy; Delight THE POET'S JOURNAL: MARAH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of my life were sweet Last Line: But, weeping, turn my head away! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid Last Line: She is not purer than her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE CHAPEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like one who leaves the trampled street Last Line: The blessed peace that follows pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Churches; Life; Pain; Cathedrals; Suffering; Misery THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE COUNT OF GLEICHEN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read that story of the saxon knight Last Line: Is happier for thy sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Love; Tears THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE FATHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fateful hour, when death stood by Last Line: And lead me with thy helpless hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE MYSTIC SUMMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the dropping of the flower Last Line: The mystic summer wanes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Summer THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In clay the statue stood complete Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism THE POET'S PETITION, by JOSIAH RELPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If phoebus his poet's petition would crown Last Line: To virtue's improvement, and vice's decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Relph, Joseph Subject(s): Country Life; Poetry & Poets THE POINTLESS NETHER PLOW, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is farming in an inclement sun system Last Line: Carving his soil with volcanic blue seeds Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE POPE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he leads a happy life Last Line: I'll fancy then I am the pope. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Popes; Papacy THE PORTRAIT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits upon a tombstone in the shade Last Line: And solves the riddles of the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Life THE PORTSMOUTH SAILOR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, o magical evenings Last Line: To stories of over sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Family Life; New Hampshire; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Story-telling; Relatives THE POSITIVISTS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Life and the universe show spontaneity Last Line: We're our own gods, say the positivists. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Universe THE POSTERN GATE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose me a lovely garden Last Line: "is gilding the postern gate." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Life; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness THE POTATO DIGGER'S SONG, by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, connal, acushla, turn the clay Last Line: Of ireland. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PRAYER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many worlds have I made,' said the good god Last Line: "to draw men's souls to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Creation; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Prayer THE PRAYER FOR LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sunshine and fair earth! Last Line: Leave me, oh! Leave me unto home and hearth! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Life; Prayer THE PREACHER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the one tree you love so well and hardly Subject(s): Old Age; Nature; Social Commentgaries; Country Life; Death; Dead, The THE PREACHER'S WIFE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless his wife, the preacher's wife Last Line: The rising of the just. Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Religion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology THE PRESENTATION AT COURT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The king asked / the queen, and Last Line: "I do like a little bit of beauty in my debs!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PRIME OF LIFE, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Just as I thought I was growing old Last Line: Just as I thought I was growing old. Subject(s): Aging; Gray (color); Life; Old Age; Women; Grey (color) THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king Last Line: The prince is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE PROCTORSVILLE AND WINDSOR, VERMONT, STAGE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was 'round the wide-eyed age Last Line: You bet, he glorified that stage. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont THE PRODIGAL SON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Young man - / young man Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting THE PROGRESS OF DISCONTENT, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When now, mature in classic knowledge Last Line: And in pursuit alone it pleases. Subject(s): Clergy; Discontent; Life; Oxford University; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dissatisfaction THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PROMOTION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend has become an administrator. Subject(s): Corporate Life THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE PROUD FARMER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the acres of the newborn state Last Line: And lion-dreams begin to burn within. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PURPOSE OF LIFE, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: Do the tears that arise in the heat of the strife Last Line: But the weakest may live as becometh a man. Subject(s): Life; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PYRES, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pyres in the night, in the night! Last Line: The glory of war! Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE QUEEN FORGETS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What came before and afterward Last Line: On the chill blade. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN IN FRANCE; AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fell upon the august month Last Line: And no thae puddock-pies!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My charlotte is a peerless gem Last Line: Than others' smiles, I ween! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, calm, sleeping sea! Awake and tell Last Line: Till her face again be seen.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE QUESTION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it enough to feel the opal spring Last Line: It is enough? Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Life; Soul; Destiny THE QUESTION WHITHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we have thrown off this old suit Last Line: For word with such wayfarers. Subject(s): Immortality; Life THE QUIET LIFE, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasure have great princes Last Line: Yet merry it is, and quiet. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE QUIET NIGHTS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of my low desert Last Line: And name my lovely nights of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; God; Night; Quiet Life; Sleep; Bedtime THE QUIET WAYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great god made me a man Last Line: And the great hills that pierce the days. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE QUOTIDIAN, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we live Last Line: Here in the skin of . . . Otherwise) shoveling / out, dryly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Self THE RAIN ON THE ROOF, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves is the haunt I love! Last Line: The rain on the roof. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Thought; Thinking THE RAIN-POOL, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like a little pool Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Life; Rain THE RAINBOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a rainbow that appears Last Line: If love's clear rainbow did not gleam! Subject(s): Life; Love; Rainbows THE RAINBOW OVER THE ROAD, by FRANCES JACKSON DELANO Poem Text First Line: A high road, a hard road; it ofttimes plungeth down Last Line: A new road, an old road, on, through eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Wellesley College; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RAINS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river rises / and the rains keep coming. Subject(s): Rain; Fear; Family Life; Relatives THE RE-CURED LOVER EXULTETH IN HIS FREEDOM, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am as I am, and so will I be Last Line: That I am as I am and so will I be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 70 Subject(s): God; Life; Self THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE REBEL, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A riot-maker! Can the fruit Last Line: The laughter of her greater sons. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Chaos; Life; Revolutions THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE RECORD OF A LIFE, by HENRY DAVID GRAY Poem Text First Line: He lived and died, and all is passed away Last Line: This is his history: he lived -- and died! Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE RECURRENCE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things return, nietzsche said Subject(s): Life THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions. Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE REPLY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bird, bird, don't edge me in Subject(s): Birds; Life THE REPORT, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is blowing on the prison walls Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Conduct Of Life; Convicts THE REST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rests at last, as on the motherbreast Last Line: We'll not believe that till he tells us so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Life; Mothers; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The THE RESURRECTION OF ALCILIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet song-flower of the mayspring of our song Last Line: Murmuring, we hear thee, bird and flower of love. Subject(s): Death; Life; Winter; Dead, The THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do all who lie down expect to awake? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE RETURN, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as a mother long ago Last Line: For him by engines of desire. Subject(s): Life THE RETURN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An idea ran around the world Subject(s): Life THE RETURN, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he entered the city: in the old stories Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE RETURN OF JEANNE D'ARC, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the vales of paradise Last Line: It is her voice! Jeanne d'arc! Jeanne d'arc! Variant Title(s): The Return Of Joan D'arc Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Paris, France; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE RHYTHM, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all a rhythm Last Line: Dark at the closing Subject(s): Life THE RICHEST PRINCE, by ANDREAS KERNER Poem Text First Line: All their wealth and vast possessions Last Line: "thou art wealthier far than we!" Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RIGHT FAMILY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With time our notions allus change Last Line: She'd vow her fam'ly was jus' right! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo / betwen thumb Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Farmers; Latinos THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a' men living be it kend Last Line: Wi blythsome glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers THE RIVER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up among the dew-lit fallows Last Line: Goal and grave are won! Subject(s): Life THE RIVER OF LIFE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright with unnumbered laughters Last Line: Roll round then, o mystical cycle! Flow onward, ineffable stream! Subject(s): Life THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My way of life is a winding road Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'" Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs THE ROAD BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I heard the terrible chaste snorting of hogs trying to re-enter Last Line: Know are not - get used up, that's it. Subject(s): Life THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROAD TO RUIN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I went into the grog-shop, tom, and stood beside" Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE ROLLING ENGLISH ROAD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the roman came to rye or out to severn strode Last Line: Before we go to paradise by way of kensal green. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROSE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle, gentle river / hurrying along Last Line: T will cheer life's wilderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Rivers; Roses THE ROSE BOWER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crimson bower the garden glows Last Line: Shines with immortal worth. Subject(s): Calm; Immortality; Life; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a rose-bush in a garden growing Last Line: Its every bud grown into perfect flower Subject(s): Flowers;life;roses THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A child sleeps under a rose-bush fair Last Line: And silently cover a new-made mound. / and the years glide by Subject(s): Life;time THE ROVER, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: The day is full of busy-ness Last Line: And make me sleep till day? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ROYAL CROWN, by ISRAEL ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I know that those who plead Last Line: Israel abrahams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 21, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears Last Line: Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 22, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For some we loved, the loveliest and the best Last Line: And one by one crept silently to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And we, that now make merry in the room Last Line: Descend -- ourselves to make a couch -- for whom? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 24, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend Last Line: Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and -- sans end! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE RUINED HEART, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: My heart was as a roman palace fair Last Line: An humble hut from ruins of my pride. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Rome, Italy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RUINED INN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway stands a ruined inn Last Line: That time of sunrise and of boyish dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life THE RUINED NUNNERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a tempestuous eve; the rains Last Line: Are swept from off the stage! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE RULE OF LIFE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With reason dwell in ever sweet delight Last Line: Gladness shall fill thy day, and sleep thy night. Subject(s): Life THE RUMON AND THE WHIR OF UNBORN WINGS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some girl serene, some girl whose being is Subject(s): Life THE RUNAWAY BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst I sassed my pa, an' he Last Line: I won't run away no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Punishment; Wandering & Wanderers; Relatives THE RUNE OF AGE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that on the hills and wastes of night art shepherd Last Line: Give me now thy darkness and thy silence! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Comfort; Future Life; Gifts & Giving; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the voice in the corries Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE RUNNERS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs that falter and fail to guide us Last Line: "I am goal and laure! The prize is -- peace!" Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Peace; God THE RURAL BEAUTY; A VILLAGE ODE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift the window, lift it high Last Line: She burns me with her blushing cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs THE RUSH AND WHIRL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rush and whirl of urban ways Last Line: The rush and whirl! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE RUSTIC PAINTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His sheep went idly over the hills Last Line: With his little sweetheart's face. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Farm Life; Love THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SABINE FARMER'S SERENADE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a windy night Last Line: Charming judy callaghan. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Charming Judy Callaghan Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SACRAMENT OF LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Life is god's sacramental gift Last Line: From all earth's sorrows with god's gift of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Sacraments; Dead, The; Theology THE SADNESS OF PARENTS, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness THE SAILOR BOY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life you ask of? Why, you know Last Line: And what I will be for her sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main. Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SATISFACTION COAL COMPANY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What to do with a day Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sits he throned, where men and gods behold Last Line: While yon grey ramparts kindle to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Life; Love; Monuments; Past; War THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy." Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology) THE SEASON, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wear a silken life Last Line: Would never do for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE SEASONS: SUMMER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From brightening fields of ether fair Last Line: And ever rising with the rising mind. Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE SECEDERS: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the pure castalian fount our feet Last Line: They fall on us as rain on logs and stones. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Truth THE SECEDERS: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet what were love, and what were toil and thought Last Line: And make dull earth a heaven of thought below. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my melch cow Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty. Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's coming through this street Last Line: Tis bacchus' son who walks below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 2, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you sleep these dark hours, maiden Last Line: And ends in those two eyes of blue. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 2, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocently thought, / and worthy of thy youth! I should not say Last Line: Was but a drop in the world-melting flood. - Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECOND CONCESSION OF DEER, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Text First Line: John tompkins lived in a house of logs Last Line: Of his own domain in deer. Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Houses; Old Age; Relatives THE SECOND DAYES LAMENTATION OF THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next morning when the golden sunne was risen Last Line: Forswearing love, and all his fond delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SECRET FLAME: WHO SHALL ESCAPE THE LORD?, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he be agile and alert Last Line: The ineradicable flame Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this world's friends might see but once Last Line: Till the white-winged reapers come! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SELF-UNSEEING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the ancient floor Last Line: Yet we were looking away! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE SENSE OF THE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One's grand flights, one's sunday baths Subject(s): Life THE SERMON OF THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilful we are, in our infirmity Last Line: The smoldering sweetness of a dead red rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Roses; Sermons THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A laughing knot of village maids Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEEP CHILD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thilke the mery moneth of may Last Line: I hold it best for us home to hye. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Old Shepherd's May Song Subject(s): Country Life; May (month); Religion; Theology THE SHEPHERD O' THE FARM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I be shepherd o' the farm Last Line: As ef I were a king a-crown'd. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kindes of common countrey life Last Line: And never wake till marble-stones shall weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Contentment THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE FOURTH EGLOGUE, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philaret on willy calls Last Line: If thou come next holy-day. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Country Life; Ferrar, William (17th Century); Prisons & Prisoners THE SHEPHERDS' VISION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the dim judean hills Last Line: The glorious vision shineth still. Subject(s): Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vision THE SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sez the junior orderly sergeant Last Line: We'll 'elp 'im for 'is mother, an' 'e'll 'elp us by-an'-by! Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics THE SICK-ROOM, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit is treading the earth Last Line: And a heap of ashes gray. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Spring; World THE SILENCE OF UNLABOURED FIELDS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of unlaboured fields Last Line: But better human flesh and blood! Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Mankind; Farm Life THE SILENT WEAVER, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know what gossamer Last Line: Life's pattern is complete. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love THE SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth; Agriculture; Farmers THE SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms Last Line: Your own story Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Students THE SISTERS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: We four / live here together Last Line: And gave me their secrets. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sisters THE SIX ROAD ENDS, by WILL CAREW Poem Text First Line: When folks hae got the meetin' an' sabbath dinner ower Last Line: "courtin' on the sabbath near the ""six road ends." Subject(s): Ireland; Country Life THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 89, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now while she wept beside that lonely shrine Last Line: Ere his sweet mistress that rude stroke could chide. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life THE SKY, by JOSEPH ENZWEILER Poem Text First Line: The screen door closes at 2 a. M Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SLEEPER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glen was fair as some arcadian dell Last Line: Forget, like sleep; and then forgive, like death! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Peace; Sleep; Dead, The THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A princess in the eastern tale Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SNAKE, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of october / I found on the floor of the woods Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SNUFF-TAKER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With melancholy gaze fixed on the distant sails, the poor old crone Last Line: Thereof. Two sous for the eucharist and two to spend for snuff. Subject(s): Life; Love; Regret THE SOCIOLOGY OF TOYOTAS AND JADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen here, sistren and brethren, I am goddamn tired Last Line: Four-wheeled jade chrysan- / themums around here Subject(s): Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911); Modern Life THE SOLDIERS OF THE PLOUGH, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No maiden dream, nor fancy theme Last Line: Man's labour must provide it. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOLITARY POND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiment Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOLITUDE OF LIFE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fancy's exhalations rise Last Line: Already in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Life; Solitude; Loneliness THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an old farm-wife Last Line: "but the harvest early." Subject(s): Farm Life; Mothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SONG, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed. Subject(s): Country Life THE SONG OF A TRAVELLER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Last Line: Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Romance;my Valentine;a Fine Song For Singing;songs Of Travel: 11 Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SONG OF LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A sneeze from time gives life its little breath Last Line: Without a single thought, o lord, of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life; Time THE SONG OF THE MANY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We broke the yoke of the aryan kings Last Line: We are the many and wear not the chain. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SONG OF THE STAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a star dwelling on high Last Line: In the azure light of infinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Stars THE SONG-BIRD FALLS ASLEEP, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: On it, drifts my love: a precious argosy! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored pictures Subject(s): Language; City & Town Life; Words; Vocabulary THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All / wrong Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the world's imperishable desire Last Line: The man reclaims his liberty of god! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Life; Sin THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates Last Line: The sorceress of the moon! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience; Army Life; Dogs THE SOUL OF JESUS IS RESTLESS TODAY, by CYPRUS R. MITCHELL Poem Text Last Line: But eternally undismayed Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Modern Life THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do youj return? Subject(s): Soul; Body, Human; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUND OF RAIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Older than anything else in the world Last Line: That besogs the day and the night, and the end of night, and the morrow. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sound THE SOURCE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the city has roots, they are in filth Subject(s): City & Town Life THE SOW PIGLET'S ESCAPES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little sow piglet squirmed free Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace Last Line: Athwart the starry world. Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand! Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park Last Line: And will never be heard again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking THE SOWER'S SONG, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now hands to seedsheet, boys! Last Line: For beast and man must be fed. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning sow thy seed, nor stay thy hand at evening hour Last Line: Laden with his sheaves of glory, doubtless shall return with singing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE SPAN OF LIFE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rays that first salute the morn Last Line: Shall spring to life beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Life; Sun; Tombs; Tombstones THE SPAN OF LIFE, by J. TALBOTT Poem Text First Line: Happiness, pain Last Line: The battle have won. Subject(s): Life 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 SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPARK IN THE TINDER OF KNOWING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Profound stillness in the greystone Subject(s): Life; Love THE SPECTRAL ATTITUDES, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I attach no importance to life Subject(s): Life THE SPECTRE OF THE PAST, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the great day of my life Last Line: And I felt that the words were true. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Life; Past THE SPELL IS BROKE, THE CHARM IS FLOWN!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Life; Despair THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour, Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature THE SPIRIT OF THE GAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the glamour of the gay Last Line: Overhung with starry tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Life; Self-reliance; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE SPOILED CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cause herbert graham's a' only child Last Line: "wuz I there, ma? Wuz I there, ma?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Childhood; Relatives THE SPRING CALL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down wessex way, when spring's a-shine Last Line: To call is 'pret-ty de-urr!' Subject(s): Country Life THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a mighty ship Last Line: Star of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation THE STARS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make friendship with the stars Last Line: Ascend to him, from whom its essence came. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The THE STEIN FAMILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there's a wonderful family, called stein" Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE STEPMOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First she come to our house Last Line: She's purt' nigh good as mother was! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Love; Mothers; Stepmothers; Dead, The; Relatives THE STICK-TOGETHER FAMILIES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stick-together families are happier by far Last Line: Come you back unto the fireside and be comrade with your kin. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE STILLNESS OF THE FROST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the frost-white wood comes winnowing through Last Line: The grace of thine austerity sublime! Subject(s): Frost; Life; Love; Time THE STIMULUS BEYOND THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Afforded day by day Subject(s): Future Life THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THE STORY OF A LIFE, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world smiled on me at my birth Last Line: I stand alone, -- alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Life THE STORY OF LIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say! What is life? 'tis to be born Last Line: Then drop into his grave; and then? Subject(s): Life THE STORY OF LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Louis xi, for trifles fain, I love you, curious man. Dear chafferer in Last Line: About his tattered hood ran a silver hem of moonlight fair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE STORY OF ORPHEUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis said the music of the thracian bard Last Line: And changed the savage to the citizen Subject(s): Life;mythology - Classical;orpheus THE STORY OF OUR LIVES, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are reading the story of our lives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE STORY WE KNOW, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Good-bye is the only story. We know, we know Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Urban Life THE STREAM OF LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh silvery streamlet of the fields Last Line: The dust alone remains. Subject(s): Life THE STREAM OF LIFE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stream descending to the sea Last Line: And be above us still. Subject(s): Life THE STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE STREET BEHIND YOURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night droops down upon the street Last Line: And the gutter grumbling down! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Urban Life; Bedtime THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last chris'mus, little benny Last Line: "you skeer me thataway!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives THE STRETCHER-BEARER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stretcher is one scarlet stain Last Line: O prince of peace! 'ow long, 'ow long? Subject(s): Army Life; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War THE STRONG ARE SAYING NOTHING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soil now gets a rumpling soft and damp, Last Line: Hut the strong are saying nothing until they see Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs? Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians THE SUBJECT MATTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How elusive - what we want Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE SUICIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast was the wealth I carried in life's pack Last Line: Toil on to where selfhood in godhood dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Pain; Suicide; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER DAY, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who made the world? Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE SUMMER STORM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon-time I stood in the door-way to see Last Line: And talked of their homesteads instead of their hay. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUMMONS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all who love the best Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE SUN IN THE CRADLE OF CORNFIELDS, by PAMELA MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: His laughter the burning of kindling Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUNDIAL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer day, / I stood beside a sundial; - tombs around Last Line: They merge with it and lose their heaven-wings! Subject(s): Life; Sundials; Time THE SUPREME CONSUMATIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but the world is old, nigh old as hell Last Line: Pass to my endless home with spirit clean! Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition THE SWORD IN ITS SCABBARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sword is sheathed in its scabbard Last Line: And cherish such heroes true. Subject(s): Life; Soldiers; Spring THE SYLPH, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen not nor known Last Line: Between two gowns! Subject(s): Genius; Life; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE TABLET OF TRUTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, mr. Clipstone, and take Last Line: To gaze on my tablet of truth. Subject(s): Death; Humility; Life; Love; Truth; Dead, The THE TARIFF, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rather, my people, let thy youths parade Subject(s): Trade; Country Life THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge Last Line: Found here that leisure and that ease I wished. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter THE TASK: BOOK 5. THE WINTER MORNING WALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Last Line: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Morning; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE TEA-PARTY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not with you, sisters, in your talk Last Line: Turned as they fled, and left me charity. Subject(s): Family Life; Food & Eating; Life; Parties; Sisters; Tea; Relatives THE TEA-TABLE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint james's noon-day bell for prayers had tolled Last Line: And all again that night at ombre met. Subject(s): Cities; Food & Eating; Tea; Urban Life THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TEACHER, by HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT Poem Text First Line: He sent men out to preach the living word Last Line: But that they brought to him their human need. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE TERRORS OF DEATH; WRITTEN ON THE WALLS OF A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost pace this cloistered hall Last Line: Of him whose life hath been too sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TEST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He fears not death, and therefore he is brave' Last Line: If he have lived his life with dauntless heart. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States THE TEXT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The text: love thou thy fellow Last Line: To help him on his road. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Love THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of my life Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers THE THOUGHT ETERNAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether day my spirit's yearning Last Line: He is ever fair and great. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE THREAT, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty Subject(s): Family Life; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Relatives; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE THREE BEST THING: 3. LIFE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me but live my life from year to year Last Line: And hope the road's last turn will be the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): Life;the Zest Of Life Subject(s): Life THE THREE SONGS, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King siegfried sat in his lofty hall Last Line: "siegfried lies in his red, red blood!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Singing & Singers THE THREE WARNINGS, by HESTER LYNCH (SALUSBURY) PIOZZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of deepest root is found / least willing still to quit the ground Last Line: Yields to his fate, -- so ends my tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Thrale, Mrs. Henry Subject(s): Life THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE TIMELY MEMENTO, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shipwrack'd bark cannot more sure convey Last Line: Since dying is the only way to live? Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE TIMES TABLE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than halfway up the pass Last Line: And bring back nature in peoples place Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TIRED WORKER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whisper, o my soul! The afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): City & Town Life THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the mummied kings of egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold Last Line: To fulfil thought's yearning tension upward through eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Graves; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOWN BY THE RIVER, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the watcher by the way Subject(s): City & Town Life THE TRAIL, by AMY BRUNER ALMY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I am out where I belong Last Line: Where all the stars look down! Subject(s): Country Life THE TRAIL OF NO RETURN, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Along the trail my way I wend Last Line: Away, from world sojourn. Subject(s): Future Life; Roads; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paths; Trails THE TRAMP, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: I have turned my face away from the city Last Line: Away from sight and life; o, take me in! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil? Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States THE TRAP, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The baited trap that does not kill Last Line: It was, to bait the trap with breath. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire. Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TREE OF LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mighty, magic tree Last Line: . . . . . Subject(s): Life; Trees THE TREE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that man was cast away Last Line: "what I lost by eden bower." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Life; Trees THE TREES OF HADDONFIELD, by THOMAS J. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I sing of haddonfield, west jersey's town Last Line: The starry banner and the union jack. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Trees; Urban Life THE TRIAL BY EXPERIENCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the bravest that are slain Last Line: Bearing it crushed and mystified. Variant Title(s): The Trial By Existence Subject(s): Life THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. ARGUMENT, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glorious maid, whose soule to heaven is gone Last Line: Death seem'd in her exceeding faire to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Last Line: "then, what is life? I cried.' --" Subject(s): Life THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our lives divide for ever Last Line: If I cry to you then, will you hear or know? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Nature; Time; Dead, The THE TRUE GROUNDS OF ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE RECTITUDE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Th' eternal mind, ev'n heathens understood Last Line: Is one divine, immutable good-will. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou knowest all: -- I seek in vain Last Line: In some divine eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passage of the speeding year Last Line: Believin' a' thing for the best. Subject(s): Life THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n save ye gallants, and this hopeful age Last Line: Who needs will father what the parish got. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692); Theater & Theaters; Widows & Widowers; Dramatists; Stage Life THE TRUE WITNESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I heard thee say to me Last Line: I know he is! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; World; Theology THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BELOVEDS REMAIN TRUE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos overshadows us Last Line: We have been instructed to call this his love Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life goes on Last Line: But I would not. Subject(s): Life THE TWO CHILDREN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy hangs the raindrop Last Line: For the unblessed of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): A.e. And R.c.;a.e. [and R.c] Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence THE TWO DREAMS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met one in the land of sleep Last Line: So both were only dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON Poem Text First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white. Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color) THE TWO GREETINGS: 1. SALVE!, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce from the void of shadows taken Last Line: Become more beautiful, as man! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Greetings; Life; Love; Religion; Theology THE TWO LOVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have two loves, and one is dark Last Line: Whose windows look cross-eyed at shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life; London THE TWO MASKS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my heart its freedom to be gay Last Line: With more of laughter in my scrip than tears. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE TWO PATHS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The paths of life are rudely laid Last Line: That veils the sanctuary. Subject(s): Life THE TWO PRAYERS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! When they came and stood upon my way Last Line: All that he hath not who hath tasted death.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Life; Prayer; Dead, The THE TWO SPIRITS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, when weary silence fell on all Last Line: The starry crown the glorious present wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Past; Dead, The THE TWO VISIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through days of toil, through nightly fears Last Line: And darkness over all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time; Vision THE TWO WALLETS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why humankind should ever be Last Line: The hinder pocket with our own. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE TYNESIDE WIDOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's mony a man loves land and life Last Line: For my bairn and my dear and me. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Widows & Widowers THE TYRANT AND THE CAPTIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight when I listened Last Line: "has the strength of love and death." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voices; Dead, The THE ULTIMATE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, of old, a chief died in the north Last Line: To the windless, unoared ultimate. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean THE ULTIMATE (2), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So this is the ultimate Last Line: Towards eternity! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Reason; Sea; Soul; Destiny; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean THE UNATTAINED, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is this life? And are we born for this? Last Line: The present can not sate nor e'er thy spirit fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Dead, The THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCONCERNED; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the world is all in a maze Last Line: And keep himself safe from the noise of gun. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities arise Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life THE UNDERWORLD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cone of flurried light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever am I conscious, moving here Last Line: That all beyond is not oblivion. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE UNKNOWN BROTHERS, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing band by song united Last Line: But they triumph though they fail. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graceful column and the lofty arch Last Line: "we know the worthy in the ""dead unknown." Subject(s): Death; Life; Tears; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN TREK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Ye passed not this way heretofore Last Line: The unknown trek is thine,—explore! Subject(s): Fate; Life; Destiny THE UNNAMABLE RIVER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it in the anthracite face of a coal miner Last Line: Of an avocado blossom, and in the true passion of a kiss. Subject(s): Life; Perception THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A great crime: she has Subject(s): Matricide; Conduct Of Life THE UNSTRUNG LYRE, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what can I string this antique lyre Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments THE UNVEILING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind stirs the gauze from the stone Last Line: The thing you find so precious is all over town Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Mourning; Relatives; Burials; Bereavement THE USEFUL PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A country life is sweet! Last Line: To follow the useful plough Variant Title(s): The Useful Plow Subject(s): Country Life THE UTMOST, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some clerks aver that as the tree doth Last Line: Lest fickle life me of my love deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE VACANT LOT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And letting them out again. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE VAGABONDS, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We are two travellers, roger and I Last Line: The sooner the better for roger and me! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAIN QUESTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we court the storms that rave and rend Last Line: Is not a task for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the secret valley of silence Last Line: Eddies of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VAMPIRE MOON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vital vapors to absorb Last Line: In wintriness as cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Moon THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VANTAGE POINT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Last Line: I look into the crater of the ant. Subject(s): Life THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight. Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man we knew of yore Last Line: The past and present hired man. Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON'S, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea Subject(s): Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden Last Line: There to rest forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VIGILANTES, by MARGARET ELIZA ASHMUN Poem Text First Line: We are the whirlwinds that winnow the west Last Line: We are justice, and right, and the law! Subject(s): Cowboys; Justice; Ranch Life; Vigilantes; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE VILLAGE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village life, and every care that reigns Last Line: Still it flows on, and shall for ever flow. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Justice; Liberty THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might choose my simple lot Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers THE VISION, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I sit musing all alone Last Line: The vision of eternity is strange. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VISION OF LIFE, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and I Last Line: But still they rush'd -- along -- along -- along! Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Life THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VISIONARY PICNIC, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These memories of what Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE VISIT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the snowdrop goes to town Last Line: And weariness falls from the shoulders. Subject(s): Country Life; Walking THE VOICE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down the hill I heard Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Subject(s): Country Life; Memory THE VOLUPTUARY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am sick of love reciprocated Last Line: Keeps not the pleasure even of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Love; Pleasure THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair Last Line: And cries in agony to god! Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE WAITRESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She brings a drink to the table Last Line: Beyond these late-night, practically empty streets Subject(s): Life; Night; Waiting; Bedtime THE WAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come anthea let us two Last Line: Then to want the wake next yeare. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; New Year THE WANDERER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm talking about what isn't there anymore, Subject(s): Friendship; Family Life; City & Town Life; Farewell; Love; Relatives; Parting THE WANDERER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering minstrel at my gate Last Line: Give your smile to slaves like me! Subject(s): Life; Minstrels; Wandering & Wanderers THE WANING FIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death's dread angel came to me to-night Last Line: I see again the faces of old days. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WAR WIDOW, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train Last Line: No truth, no life, but leads through christmas day. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; War; Widows & Widowers; Optimism THE WASHERWOMAN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: With hands all reddened and sore Last Line: From the saviour's wounded side. Subject(s): Life; Love; Washerwomen THE WATERS OF LUNG-T'OU (THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER), by HSU LING Poem Text First Line: The road that I came by mounts eight thousand feet Last Line: That I ever lived in the streets of hsien-yang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiao-mu Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Frontier & Pioneer Life; Nature THE WAVE, by CHRISTOPH AUGUST TIEDGE Poem Text First Line: Whither, thou turbid wave? Last Line: "of the muddy banks of time." Subject(s): Life; Waves THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY O' THE WARL', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's the way o' the warl' when yer troubles are sair Last Line: Lippen aye maist tae heaven, tae yersel', an' yer mither. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Paradise THE WAY OF IT, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: The day is born at sunrise time Last Line: As old hearts fail, grow still. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Life; Sunrise THE WAY OF LIFE, by AESOPUS Poem Text First Line: How, save only by death, from thee, o life, can I flee? Last Line: Balance and vengeance of ill maketh it all undone. Subject(s): Life THE WAY OF THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow Last Line: The wind's way. Subject(s): Life; Roundels; Wind THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you. Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY TO KEEP GOING IN ANTARCTICA, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be strong bernadette Subject(s): Antarctica; Conduct Of Life THE WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman got married one day Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives THE WAYSIDE CROSS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wayside cross at set of day Last Line: For such sweet thoughts in the twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE WEB OF LIFE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: This world is so fresh and so beautiful Last Line: Which were never beloved while here? Subject(s): Life THE WEDDING, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere Last Line: Bound for the dam of rotter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDDING, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her satin gown so fine Last Line: And our lilies wait the dead. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Life; Love; Marriage; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day begins: cold and misty on soiled snow Subject(s): Morning; Winter; London; Wharves; City & Town Life; Piers THE WHEELCHAIR BUTTERFLY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepy city of reeling wheelchairs Subject(s): City & Town Life THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THE WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds Last Line: I am sure it is the only life god can taste Subject(s): Bulls; Indonesia; Farm Life; Death THE WHITENESS, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep, deep under white now I longed to be Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Snow; City & Town Life THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman sentinel stood helm'd and tall Last Line: Jesus went calmly on his way to nain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Death - Babies THE WIFEBEATER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be mud on the carpet tonight Last Line: And the wife and daughter knit into each other / until they are killed Subject(s): Women Abused; Family Life; Theology THE WILD BOAT, TIME, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall a man never rest Last Line: I will drink this water in the valley. Subject(s): Life; Pigs; Time; Vision; Boars; Hogs THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some raw squire, by tender mother bred Last Line: For ought I know, he may turn taile for ever. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sin THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILD RIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses Last Line: Thou leadest, o god! All's well with thy troopers that follow! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Life THE WILL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe Last Line: To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three. Variant Title(s): He Pretends A Series Of Bequests Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE WILL TO LIVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since faith is a veil that has nothing behind it Last Line: Still one can go and pick daisies with molly! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live like the wind, he said, 'unfettered' Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WIND BLOWS SOFT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows soft, and cool, and sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Conduct Of Life THE WIND IN THE HEMLOCK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steely stars and moon of brass, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Hemlocks; Conduct Of Life THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life THE WINDOW, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows, Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Identity; Conduct Of Life THE WINE OF LIFE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earthen jar of quaint design Last Line: Tis in age that one lives best. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Youth; Wine THE WINGS, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more, but wings and wings. And still no light Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): England - Social Life And Customs THE WISH, by JAMES MERRICK Poem Text First Line: How short is life's uncertain space Last Line: "and yet above contempt!" Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Mediocrity THE WISH, SELECTION, by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I a small estate possess Last Line: "as that its noise and hurry mayn't offend." Subject(s): Country Life THE WISH; WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF POPE'S 'ODE ON SOLITUDE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "grant me, ye powers, some blest retreat" Last Line: Bring sylvia there! Subject(s): Contentment;country Life;solitude; Loneliness THE WOLD WAGGON, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt wold waggon uncle had Last Line: V a-ben a-done vor years agoo. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THE WOOD FIRE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O giant oak, majestic, dark, and old Last Line: To cheer some spirit in its winter night. Subject(s): Life; Oak Trees THE WOODCUT ON THE COVER OF ROBERT FROST'S COMPLETE POEMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man plowing starts at the side of the field Last Line: Then walking home with the horses at end of day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Plowing & Plowmen; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers THE WORLD, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are the brothers of all humankind, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE WORLD (1), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted so ably / to reassure you Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Life THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION', by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider the children of the middle class Last Line: These relentless present children of the middle class Subject(s): Life THE WORLD IS SO DIFFICULT TO GIVE UP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Or under a hot sun, sworn out / with looking Subject(s): Life THE WORLD RUMBLES BY ME - CAN I HEED?, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If I stretch my hand, I may clasp a star Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD'S A MOVING PICTURE PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: All the pictures come and go Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures THE WORLD'S A STAGE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: The very worst of modernistic rot Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Life Change Events THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth Last Line: Who turneth from his sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World THE WORLD'S WONDERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being now three or four years more than sixty Last Line: Crawls in; and a tortured jew became god Subject(s): Modern Life; Experience THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THE WRECKAGE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of the city the pickerel Subject(s): Life THE WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR, by ALICE FULTON Poet's Biography First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness THE YEARS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Each life is like a changing flower Last Line: And leave rich seeds of memory! Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Memory; Time THE YOUNG CATS' CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The philharmonic young cats' club Last Line: And simper'd and look'd the wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Winter THE YOUNG OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma is a widow: there's only Last Line: "good morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Nativity, The; Relatives THE YOUTH OF AGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a moment when, with pained surprise Last Line: The stars are heralding another dawn! Subject(s): Aging; Health; Life; Youth THE ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus THEE, THEE, ONLY THEE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Though friendship has the truant played Last Line: Of thee - thee - only thee! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio THEIR BODIES LAY SO FAR, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Each night the self lay down to escape Last Line: Keeping going with its dead Subject(s): Life; Sleep THEIR DIVORCE & THE REMAINING LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Suddenly it was silent--the snow Last Line: When we walk in the continuing snow. Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Snow THEIR WEIGHED MUSES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: How can I believe in %something Last Line: Hung with segments of the real Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was my first landscape Last Line: Of birds. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion THELMA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She walks with me in search of bargains Last Line: The summer still racing ahead of us, frisky Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THEM COUNTRY FOLKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, hello, jim mccracken, / come, shake er finger, do Last Line: En murder er chicken en churn. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship THEN A WOMAN SAID, 'SPEAK TO US OF JOY AND SORROW', by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: For that which has been your delight Subject(s): Life Change Events THEN AS EACH APRIL SMILES, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Let me live close to the heart of things Subject(s): Farm Life THEN THEY THAT FEARED THE LORD SPAKE OFTEN ONE TO ANOTHER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend I commend to thee the narrow way Last Line: Loved us while hating even to death our sin Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death; God THEODORA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: She went through %the many stages Last Line: Together, they %transformed a world Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THEOLOGY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, for ever, day by day Last Line: If there were not, where would my neighbours go? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THERE ARE MANY TRAPS IN THE WORLD, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source Last Line: Be shattered Subject(s): Life THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE TO GET DIRTY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Human Behavior; Tea; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THERE CAME A TIME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a time when men no longer / died Last Line: They seemed to hover on the edge of age. ... Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THERE I AM AGAIN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE IS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Graveyards THERE IS ROOM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ironwood and whistlewood Last Line: There is room Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THERE IS SO MUCH, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: And hug %daddy %in the street Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness THERE IT IS!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it go, then; let it go! Last Line: Loving you, to doubt you! Subject(s): Life; Love; Pity; Spring; Winter THERE SHALL BE SONGS WHEN I HAVE TIRED OF, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life THERE STANDS THERE GREEN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: There stands there green, he said, bound Last Line: A chair conjuring fire, he said Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures THERE WAS A TIME, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when this poor frame was whole Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Army Life; Sickness THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SHIELDS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed after that person of shields Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Old Age; Travel THERE'S A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bright and beautiful city Last Line: For they never, never die. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Urban Life THERE'S LIFE IN A MUSSEL; A MEDITATION, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Come here, thou proud pretender unto arts Last Line: T'imbibe the quintessence of flowing sweets. Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Metamorphosis THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By blue patapsco's billowy dash Last Line: There's life in the old land yet! Subject(s): Life; Maryland; War THERE'S MANY A LONESOME DAISY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There's many a lonesome daisy where never a child can be Last Line: As if there were never a brooklet and never a daisy grew! Subject(s): City & Town Life; Children THERE'S NO RIGOR LIKE THE OLD RIGOR, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it something uncleaved, clean-cut you wanted? Subject(s): Life THERE'S NO RIGOR LIKE THE OLD RIGOR, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it something uncleaved, clean-cut you wanted? Last Line: The time before the the. %the first time. The first wife Subject(s): Life THERE'S SOMETHIN' THAT A COWBOY KNOWS., by DARRELL ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: That draws him to the soul-fulfilling %freedom of the plain Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the blind man and his personal dark Subject(s): Blindness; Homeless; City & Town Life; Visually Handicapped THEREFORE DOES TERROR HAUNT THY SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Country Life THEREFORE FIGHT, by HELEN PHILBROOK PATTEN Poem Text First Line: Lo, I would seek to be alone with peace Last Line: And only these, can lead to final glory. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Peace; Soul THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. METTIKA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I am weak and tired now Last Line: The breath %of liberty Subject(s): Buddhism; Freedom; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. MUTTA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So free am I, so gloriously free Last Line: And all that has held me down %is hurled away Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. SUMANGALAMATA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A woman well set free! How free I am Last Line: And contemplate my happiness Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. UBBIRI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ubbiri, who wails in the wood Last Line: I turn, my heart now healed Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THESE CHAIRS THEY HAVE NO WORDS TO UTTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweetness and breath with the quiet of death %peace, peace, peace Subject(s): Life; Solitude THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THESE OBITUARIES OF RATTLESNAKES BEING EATEN BY THE HOGS, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: The artritic farmer and a calf watch dr. Graves Last Line: Off the tripes, he could pour us a sly drink from the cider jug Subject(s): Farm Life THEY COULDN'T BUY IT ALL, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: It seemed as if the huse were glad to see me Subject(s): Farm Life THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THEY HOIST IT, SHINING, THEY SUPPORT IT, UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS,, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A boy to the ring of killers. They bring him, crying. Her throat leaps Subject(s): Family Life THEY PITY US WHO TURN THE SOIL THAT IT MAY, by MRS. CECIL D. BROWN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life THEY PLOW, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: In the field, where russet in the row Last Line: His tinkling, fine as gold Subject(s): Farm Life THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead? Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THEY SOWED AND WATERED, by OKOT P'BITEK Poem Source Last Line: Anointing the land Subject(s): Farm Life THING MAN, by COLIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Who stiched me so %and left Last Line: To shake %the bone dust %from them Subject(s): Life; Soul THING TO WATCH OUT FOR, by DEBORAH TALL Poem Source First Line: Morning %becomes Last Line: The thing to watch out for while living %is this Subject(s): Life; Morning; Solitude THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life THINGS OF CLAY, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Sing a little, play a little Last Line: Smiles and slips away. Subject(s): Life THINGS OF INTRINSIC WORTH, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Remember that sandrock on emmells crick Last Line: And nobody knows...Or nobody cares... %about things of intrinsic worth. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about things that might have been and never were Last Line: The fabled irish bird that alights in two places at once. %the child I never had Subject(s): Change; Future; Life; Past THINGS UNSEEN, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ramakrishna crosses a paddy field Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Absence; Life THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THINKING OF MY FAMILY ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Wet is the jade dew that borders the flowers Last Line: My heart chasing wild geese that soar toward the south Subject(s): Family Life THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THIRD REMOVE: IN WHICH ATTEMPTS ARE MADE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Attic attic. %every room is a high perch Last Line: There is no applause, no good reason Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE THE WORLD WENT BLACK,, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I watched scrolls of frozen roads and shrills of pale trees Last Line: Of lives they had not hoped for but were not against Subject(s): Life THIS BREAD I BREAK WAS ONCE THE OAT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My wine you drink, my bread you snap Subject(s): Life THIS CITY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This apartment with no furniture, Subject(s): City & Town Life THIS DAY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel foolish Subject(s): Life THIS DOWNTOWN CORNER WASN'T SO DIFFERENT 20 YEARS AGO, by KAREN HOLDEN Poem Source Last Line: Silent ways then why didn't he want us? Subject(s): Children; Family Life THIS GAME WE PLAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They shared a house, a table and a bed Last Line: She wept to hear his faint voice cry, home! Free! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THIS INCONSTANCY IS SUCH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut street is dark and gloomy Last Line: There on the pavement. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments THIS IS GOD'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This is god's day that he lent to me Last Line: That I may use for good or ill Subject(s): God; Conduct Of Life THIS IS HERE, IT IS NOW, by JOHN ISLES Poem Source First Line: Always the glittering mineral mountain Last Line: Here, an egret would launch into a shell of sky Subject(s): Family Life; Time THIS IS LIVING, by LUCILLE IREDALE CARLESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said: / I shall write poignant bitter words Last Line: But then -- this is living! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THIS IS REMEMBERED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is remembered when the hairs fall out Subject(s): Memory; Conduct Of Life THIS IS THE DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fiddleheads are crisp and green in the lower Last Line: Splashes white! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THIS IS THE SOLUTION TO BE HAPPY WITH SLAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: To lie down in the blood of our innocence Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THIS IS THE TRUE JOY OF LIFE, by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Poem Source Last Line: Grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to %making you happy Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS IS TO LET YOU KNOW, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With all my heart. This is to let you know Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Every motion and joint of your body Subject(s): Life Change Events THIS LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly I opened my napkin with a flair Subject(s): Clouds; Gifts & Giving; Life THIS LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly I opened my napkin with a flair Last Line: And if it was sweet and vernal, the cloud I gave you Subject(s): Clouds; Gifts And Giving; Life THIS LIFE OF OURS, by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER Poem Text First Line: What's all the clatter and chatter? Last Line: But beauty is part of life's dream. Subject(s): Life THIS LIFE WHICH SEEMS SO FAIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It shoots the bubbles from the air %and closes down the market Subject(s): Life THIS LITTLE PIGGY CRIED WEE WEE WEE ALL THE WAY HOME, by LUDWIG DETSINYI Poem Source First Line: Little piggy was playing with the piggies next door Last Line: I really had to go!' Subject(s): Family Life; Pigs THIS LITTLE PIGGY HAD NONE, by LUDWIG DETSINYI Poem Source First Line: One day momma piggy went shopping and came home Last Line: Okay,' said momma piggy. 'you can have spots, too.' Subject(s): Family Life; Pigs THIS LITTLE PIGGY HAD ROAST BEEF, by LUDWIG DETSINYI Poem Source First Line: Little piggies, come and eat,' called momma piggy Last Line: That's not slops. That's %roast beef!' Subject(s): Family Life; Pigs THIS LITTLE PIGGY STAYED HOME, by LUDWIG DETSINYI Poem Source First Line: Splash! %little piggy spilled his juice Last Line: I'm going to school.' Subject(s): Family Life; Pigs THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET, by LUDWIG DETSINYI Poem Source First Line: Little piggy, will you go to market? We need eggs and milk Last Line: And here's a great big bug for my silly piggy wiggy.' Subject(s): Family Life; Pigs THIS MAN WHO SAYS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source Last Line: I in everything Subject(s): Immortality; Life THIS MORNING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barn bears the weight Last Line: Tremble as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Snow; Agriculture; Farmers THIS NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This night, as I sit here alone Last Line: Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! The owl doth cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Owls; Dead, The THIS POEM, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This poem is the chronicle of the ruthless Last Line: This poem is my mouth in splinters %chew it well brother Subject(s): Family Life - India THIS ROOM, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke that morning Subject(s): Life THIS SPARK, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: What wonder if my memory Last Line: "or ""immortality." Subject(s): Life; Memory THIS WAS HIS DREAM: THAT EARTH SHOULD GIVE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life THIS, AND THE NEXT WORLD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hath this world for many made; 'tis true Last Line: But he hath made the world to come for few. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THOMAS HARDY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning after anyone's death, it is important Last Line: You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Life; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Dead, The THOMAS THE PRETENDER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tommy's alluz playin' jokes Last Line: "an' grease the welts, ""pore pa! Pore pa!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Jokes; Childhood; Relatives THORNS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think the providence unkind Last Line: Even for me. Subject(s): God; Life THORNS OR ROSES, by IRENE L. HANSING Poem Text First Line: Life had only thorns for me Last Line: And find the rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Thorns THOROUGHLY MODERN ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've shed my petticoats, I've unbuckled Last Line: Girl, this defunct alice Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives THOSE BOYS THAT RAN TOGETHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't it make you want to cry Subject(s): African Americans Children; Boys; Conduct Of Life THOSE DAMNED WIRE GATES, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: The sun was high, the weather fair Last Line: Cuz I'm at war with those damned wire gates! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THOSE PAPERWEIGHTS WITH SNOW INSIDE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dad pushed my mother down the cellar stairs Last Line: The house I became as the glass ball stormed Subject(s): Family Life THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Far away across the seas Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life THOSE WHO LIVE NOBLY, by BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Source Last Line: Breadth of vision, with courage, and with endurance, can do a great deal Subject(s): Life Change Events THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter THOU AND I, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, strange for thee and me Last Line: I in the dust! Subject(s): Life; Death THOU ART WEDDED TO ANOTHER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: So that it cometh from thine hands Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio THOU WHO TAUGHT THE THRONGING PEOPLE, by HENRY S. MINDE Poem Source Last Line: May overcome the bent to evil %by thy purity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion THOUGHTS AFTER VIRGIL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Strength by strength this nation of ours grew surely to greatness Last Line: But build fraternal charities on righteous enactment. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English THOUGHTS AND FLOWERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thoughts grow like flowers overnight Last Line: They will always want to grow. Subject(s): April; Children; Growth; Plantation Life; Childhood THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!" Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS OF A MODERN MAIDEN, by EDITH M. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Throb of my heart, throb of my heart Last Line: Where did you come from, where are you going? Subject(s): Life Change Events THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a different life to live Last Line: To get away from the smell. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs THOUGHTS OF THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The boat makes her way between the Last Line: The exile that follows it Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Life Change Events; Sea; Travel THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong passions draw, like horses that are strong Last Line: As god's unerring spirit shall inspire. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THOUGHTS ON WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few long-time city dwellers who move to the country for peace and quiet Last Line: I was able to accomplish all that in just three hours, and the guys at the firestone didn't get a ce Subject(s): Winter; Country Life THOUGHTS UPON A WALK WITH NATALIE, MY NIECE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the same familiar land Last Line: On this frail ship forevermore? Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Relatives THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips THOUSAND WAYS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The beloved knows a thousand ways %to enter your body Last Line: Turn gently, and follow your breath %to the center of your being Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life THREAT OF FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Nobody spoke of the second war Last Line: Was the toll of the angelus Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THREE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of our time? Last Line: What it was; what it shall be; unfound, -- and unsought. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Modern Life THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like your life? Last Line: Yawningly, yes. yes Subject(s): Life; Likes & Dislikes THREE BABES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a lady and a lady gay Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life THREE CANARIES, by JAMES NORCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: My mother Last Line: Laughed and laughed and laughed Subject(s): Life THREE CITIES: 1. MILAN, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: Among your stones and your fogs I play Last Line: There's no respite from life %like life Subject(s): Life; Milan, Italy; Travel THREE ESTATES, by JAMES VINK Poem Source First Line: It is a stately and elegant scene Last Line: Rude to the cheeks of the dead Subject(s): Life THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary Last Line: Down on his golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 2, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The studio is deserted Last Line: To comfort each new pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Love; Silence THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 3, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house is all deserted Last Line: God, and her own true heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THREE FACES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In half profile, one behind the other Last Line: And to their partial spectrum the white light Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Faces; Family Life; Trinity, The THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE GOOD THINGS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I think I like that hour best Last Line: Beauty, peace, and victory. Subject(s): Life THREE KITCHENS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pace a friend's house. On the walls, Subject(s): Kitchens; Family Life; Relatives THREE MEN IN A TENT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My one blood-uncle laughs Last Line: One of us %to four %of them. %I sure missed %my old buddies.%I even missed %ol'corbon Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunne that had himselfe a courtier beene Last Line: How much you fauour vs, wee honour you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THREE STAGES, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a city undergoes diaster, it moves as a mass Subject(s): City & Town Life; Disasters THREE STEPS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three steps there are our human life must climb Last Line: As touches the white rose and mystic dove. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: III: 1886, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: A stillness in %the air you heard Last Line: Of light you could %see to see Subject(s): Air; Quiet Life THREE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A three - year - old walks Last Line: Let me see, too! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THRENODY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year Last Line: Take: the best we can give is breath. Subject(s): Death; England; Life; Night; Dead, The; English; Bedtime THRESHING, by AMY FLEURY Poem Source First Line: Under the polished spokes of the sun Last Line: In sleep they will grow together, %root, stalk and grain Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Relationships THRESHING TIME, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: I remember at crhistmas getting a great toy threshing machine Last Line: And the old hands laughed, and the new hands laughed %and they were men together Subject(s): Ranch Life; Toys THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; AFTER INGMAR BERGMAN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are out bathing in the sea at night Last Line: Who escort us to and from shock therapy... Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Family Life; Happiness; Night; Sea; Relatives; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Ocean THROUGH ASPENS AND BEYOND, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Our woodstove blazes against winter Last Line: I bend toward the light, %through aspens and beyond Subject(s): Ranch Life THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life THROUGH KITCHEN WINDOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Through kitchen windows we can see Last Line: At fruitful earth, and earth laid bare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THROUGH LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We slight the gifts that every season bears Last Line: "and in our hearts we sigh, ""forevermore!" Subject(s): Life THROUGH THE I OF THE NEEDLE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: The peach is %a belly dancer's fruit Last Line: And is there death %after %death? Subject(s): Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches THROUGH THE LOOKING MASK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The queen angelfish %and princess parrotfish Last Line: For its coral castle Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality THROUGH; A VISION OF VICTORY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! One whose back was sunward, caught the eye Last Line: In the great daytime of love's stainless truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Devil; Soul; Conduct Of Life; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THROWING HIS LIFE AWAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THROWN AS IF FIERCE & WILD, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence THURSDAY EVENING BEDTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid of the dark / is afraid of mom Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives THURSDAY EVENING BEDTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid of the dark %is afraid of mom Last Line: Says ebony %everett %anderson Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life TIDAL MARSHES, AUGUST, by JAMES WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Gray rain. Old gravity Last Line: What a family does not speak of Subject(s): Family Life; Secrets; Summer TIDEO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pass one window, tideo Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life TIERRA DEL FUEGO, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who see our homes at night Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TIGERS, ESTRANGEMENTS, ELEPHANTS AND LIES, by RISHI AGRAWAL Poem Source First Line: One of my uncles that I never met Last Line: His son has been trampled by elephants Subject(s): Elephants; Family Life TIL I DEPART, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Few men feel these hillsides breathe Last Line: I'll keep on rhymin' til I depart Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TILL THE MIST PASSES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till the mist passes, and ye can descry Last Line: Also the utmost man that lives in you. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TILLAGE MARKS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Stones; Agriculture; Farmers; Granite; Rocks TIME, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Text First Line: Time is the root of all this earth Last Line: Bow each in turn,—why tears for birth or death? Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Life; Time TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Time has us all in his pocket Last Line: We measured out Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TIME, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wish me, then, away? Last Line: Eternity and I are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They talked of palm beach lots Last Line: We fell to talking trivial commonplaces. Subject(s): Life; Time TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a happy spirit Last Line: Time smote me on the brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Spiritual Life; Time; Dead, The TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Time is the root of all this earth Last Line: Bow each in turn, - why tears for birth or death? Subject(s): Life Change Events TIME AND ETERNITY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far flung by the omnipotent Last Line: Of god's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME AND LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken Last Line: Nay, but rest. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Roundels; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives TIME BEFORE WINTER, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Longing grows anywhere Last Line: Of cowboy coffee, stutters through %night alone, scouting Subject(s): Ranch Life TIME IS A SPACE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: Time is a space between two miseries Last Line: While it escapes between the ticks and tocks. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Last Line: Say about them, nothing at all Subject(s): Future Life; Time TIME OF DISTURBANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive Last Line: To strike dead than strike often. It is better not to strike Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TIME REMAINING, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you who had, it seemed Last Line: Accomodations, finally fitting %to a t Subject(s): Life; Time TIME TABLE, by FANNY DE GROOT HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: Leave, arrive - leave, arrive Last Line: The rest belong to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME'S CHANGES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Times change oh, time's change! Last Line: In hearts we love and trust Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TIME'S TRAIN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So in this tale he gets to come back Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIMES AIN'T WHAT THEY WAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When pa an' ma was married in the days long gone and dead Last Line: An' boys an' girls grow bigger - an' I'm glad to see the day Subject(s): Family Life;modern Man;time;west (u.s.); Relatives;southwest;pacific States TIMGAD, by ELLEN VINTON Poem Text First Line: A forest of pillars in a barren plain Last Line: Reaching so far into this desert land. Subject(s): Cities; Rome, Italy; Urban Life TIMOTHY DRAW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: We pause at the top of timothy draw Last Line: And we slip on down the draw Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emirs and khans in long array Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators TIN CUP, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: Good wine should slip Last Line: Just throw the hell away Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TIN WEDDING WHISTLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you know it anyhow Last Line: Such valid reason for a marriage Subject(s): Life Change Events TINKER WOMAN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Walking in the january light Last Line: She carried the bottle home Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TIRED LAND, by ELEANOR RHODES Poem Source First Line: In ill-won rest I lie stripped bare Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life TIS DARING WINS THE DAY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you cold, or are you lukewarm Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Truth; Conduct Of Life TIS NOT THAT DYING HURTS US SO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We stipulate - till pitying sorrows %persuade our heavenly home Variant Title(s): Poem: 335; Poem: 52 Subject(s): Life TITANS, by BETTI ALVER Poem Source First Line: Don't suppose that the weightless phantom Last Line: Yet some blazing hand will remake the chaos %of earth, people, and death Subject(s): Science Fiction; Spiritual Life TO, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You tell I must not forget you Last Line: But we willl hope; and we can wait Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO - (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One word is too often profaned Last Line: From the sphere of our sorrow? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter Last Line: Flower of isar's vale! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans TO A BIRD IN THE CITY, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird! I bless thee in my heart; god knows I love to see Last Line: Such things speak plainer far to me than all that man can say. Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Urban Life TO A BOY WHISTLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling face of a happy boy Last Line: Or the trivial cause of your smiling face! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Childhood TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Is it the april springing Last Line: And long but to love, and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism TO A CERTAIN CHURCH, by ANITA MCCLENDON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Tomb of dead souls that by my pathway stands Last Line: Like thy dear son who died on calvary. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO A CERTAIN LADY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tore her scarlet gown Last Line: "in your moral modern town!" Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The TO A CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: O bright-eyed child whose laughter Last Line: The intense immense soft dense sweet mist that round her strays.— Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Life; Love; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO A CHINESE LARK, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Out in the squalid village sits and sings Last Line: With hymns of praise, uplifted to the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs TO A COUNTRY COUSIN, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cousin kate, you ask me Last Line: In an album out of town. Subject(s): Country Life; Cousins; Poetry & Poets TO A COWBOY'S GRANDSON, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: A late spring blizzard Last Line: We'll ride to the black wolf %dry willow and arikaree Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TO A DEAD BABY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run Last Line: There is a heaven that makes this earth complete. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Life; Infants; Death - Babies TO A DEAD CHILDHOOD, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: My father's loud call like a crest of feathers Last Line: Waiting for my father's next brilliant move Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life TO A DESCENDANT, by LORNA WOOD Poem Source First Line: I shall not be an importunate, nagging ghost Last Line: In your face or your walk or the glance of your laughing eyes Subject(s): Life Change Events TO A FRIEND, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Life rushes us along so fast' Subject(s): Farm Life TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Let envy shoot envenomist darts Last Line: Now clouds obscure thy sun Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO A FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You like the country better than the town Subject(s): Country Life TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush! Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness TO A LITTLE NIECE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So full of mirth, so full of play Last Line: Then, little dove, remember me! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: How blithe you are, and tall Last Line: So tall, and unafraid! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears TO A PERSON TALKING OF 'REAL LIFE', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so you really hold Last Line: Go -- find a girl -- and see! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Fate; Jesus Christ; Life; Stars; Destiny TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had wings, my brother Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY Poem Text First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie Last Line: For now at last I see. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains TO A SLEEPING MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Do not rudely wake her, nor reproach Last Line: That finds in dreams a world more fair than this. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sleep; Women; Nightmares TO A TULIP BED, SLEEPING, by RAYMOND PLANTZ Poem Source First Line: Far away the days and nights are coming to Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens And Gardening TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From public noise and factious strife Last Line: Love is a jest, and vows are wind. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth; Paradise TO AMARILLIS, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though amarillis daunce in green Subject(s): Country Life TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little princess of the small slipper Last Line: Is the one word, -- love? Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TO AN ARROGANT YOUNG MAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Narcissus, gazing in a forest pool Last Line: Was twenty times more beautiful than you Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TO AN EDITOR, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Here at his desk where the sunshine lingers Subject(s): Farm Life TO AN ENEMY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once. I shall know thee ever Last Line: Thou high and blessed creature! Subject(s): Enemies; Beauty; God; Conduct Of Life TO AN IDEALISTIC POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why, dear heart, drag in Last Line: With the over-souls and democracies. Subject(s): Lies; Life; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Soul 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 AN OLD TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot choose but love, lad Last Line: Or stab you -- smile, lad, smile. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The TO B., by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, the country life - how sweet Last Line: With you are sweeter still. Subject(s): Country Life TO BE ALIVE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To be alive: not just the carcass Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Poetry & Poets TO BE YOUNG, by HELEN ELDRED STORKE Poem Text First Line: Amid the fresh salt surf one's bit of buoyant life to fling Last Line: One, face to face, the beauty of each wave's surmounted crest. Subject(s): Life; Youth TO BESSIE HAWES, MAY QUEEN, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Now wouldn't I like to be there to see Last Line: And it's maytime always to think of you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO BETTY LEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear betty lee, my thought for you Last Line: "to pen this sentence, ""I love you." Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Love; Relationships; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO BREAK OPEN EARTH FOR THE SAKE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Made fruitful by its flight Subject(s): Farm Life TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO CELIA, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the town and all its ways Last Line: Since she possesses all I love. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO CHATTERTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal boy! Whose years scarce reached my own Last Line: Have I, and still my fields are green and wet. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Fortune; Life; Soul; Dead, The TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO COUSIN CLARE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O don't you remember the old times clare Last Line: To tell over that old long ago! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO DAFFODILS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair daffodils, we weep to see / you haste away so soon Last Line: Ne'er to be found againe. Variant Title(s): To Daffadills Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence TO DELIA: 18 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What it is to breathe and live without life Last Line: Delia, my heart hath learned out of those eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Peace TO DELIA: 20, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, death, the anchor-hold of all my thoughts Last Line: So high attempts to low disgraces fall. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The TO DELIA: 24, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft and in vain my rebel thoughts have ventured Last Line: Reign in my thoughts, my love and life are thine. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love TO DELIA: 28 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the spotless ermelin distressed Last Line: Thus shades my life so long as wants endure. Subject(s): Earth; Fortune; Life; Soul; World TO DELIA: 30 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cares draw on mine everlasting night Last Line: Th' elysian ghosts shall never know the same. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The TO DELIA: 36, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, be not grieved that these my papers should Last Line: Yet count it no disgrace that I have loved thee. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO DESTINY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could be a rock Last Line: Still, thanks for whatever I have. not my doing I'm the shall-have man Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TO DR SHERLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive the muse, who, in unhallowed strains Last Line: And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Life; Muses; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With each his little, secret dream Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face! Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares TO EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting Last Line: Once, ere the flame received him from the sea.}/it Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean TO FLORA, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Tell me, flora, tell me, why Last Line: "be, and do, we know not what." Subject(s): Life TO FLORA'S LILY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of the mystic kirtle splashed with gold Last Line: Chanting the great antiphone of god! Subject(s): Life; Soul TO FORTUNE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, all things I will endure Last Line: The grey friend sweet. Subject(s): Fortune; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO G. W. C., by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still shines our august day, as calm, as bright Last Line: Hope, faith, and strength for life's dim future borrow. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Youth TO H. M., by FRANCIS BARNARD (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I've disciplined my loving with a scourge Last Line: And to this logic leaves me wholly blind. Subject(s): Life; Love; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died Last Line: But life has told on you. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The TO HAVE A CHILD THESE DAYS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights TO HAVE REVERENCE FOR LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But leave when summoned by the gods Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was just about to take a drink Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;talk;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States TO HELEN KELLER, by TOSCAN BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Our eyes to you no beauty can unfold Last Line: To wait the morning's call. Subject(s): Beauty; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Soul TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are one of our great spirits Last Line: You are a flaming beacon for us all. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Soul TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate laid upon you silence and the night Last Line: God knows that I am with you in this fight! Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Destiny; Optimism TO HENRY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I am waiting husband, waiting Last Line: From the curse of tyranny Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO HIM ALL LIFE WAS BEAUTY, by A. L. C. Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO HIS DEAD MASTER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You gave me a stone Last Line: It stuck in my throat Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TO HIS FAITHFULL FRIEND, MASTER JOHN CROFTS, CUP-BEARER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all thy many courtesies to me Last Line: Here to be paid; ile pay't I'th'world to come. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild deluge where the world was drowned Last Line: With their own peace their childrens happinesse. Variant Title(s): To His Sacred Majesty Charles The Second;to His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO JANE: THE INVITATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Best and brightest, come away! Last Line: In the universal sun. Variant Title(s): The Invitation Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Williams, Jane TO JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who to the rounded prime Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Youth; Childhood TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise TO LIFE, by HELEN TAPPAN BERTHOFF Poem Text First Line: You may ruthlessly wound me, leaving me Last Line: And where is poverty? Subject(s): Life TO LIFE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The keen pursuit is more than captive prey Last Line: Then sound the onset! Chance the last award! Subject(s): Life TO LIFE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O life with the sad seared face Last Line: I feign, I shall believe! Subject(s): Life TO LIFE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All one can say with certainty about anything that has you is it moves!' Subject(s): Life TO LIFE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unpetal the flower of me Last Line: Do not this thing to me. Subject(s): Life TO LIFE - A DEFIANT GESTURE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: The things that are mine, are mine Last Line: At the quiet close of day. Subject(s): Life TO LINA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lina, rival of the linnet Last Line: Might be trancing as a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares TO LOSERS OF EARTH AND GOD, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: To all who lose the earthly touch Subject(s): Farm Life TO M. W., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind, gentle friend, brought strangely low Last Line: As dances at her heart to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Life; Night; Seasons; Bedtime TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prethee, leave the courts Last Line: Can here procure for thee. Subject(s): Country Life TO MARGARETTA, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: There swayed the tall poplars the oaks and the maples Last Line: When death shall unite us beyond the dark tomb Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MARKET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the long way from jamaica Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives TO MARKET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the long way from jamaica Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO MISS LAETITIA VAN LEWEN AT A COUNTRY ASSIZE, by CONSTANTIA (CRAWLEY) GRIERSON Poem Text First Line: The fleeting birds may soon in ocean sing Last Line: Of your constantia. Subject(s): Country Life TO MISS LIBBIE SMITH, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: O say my dear friend and don't you remember Last Line: Will cling to the old times, youth's sunny day Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MOLLY, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: You are like a flower of two colors Last Line: The seed of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nuns TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 6. HUMOR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What light and air are to the things which grow Last Line: By humorous quips of some icelandic spot. Subject(s): Humorists; Life TO MRS. MAY MORGAREIDGE POWER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A checkered sea thou'st launched upon Last Line: But left its silver lining! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MRS. R. B. LEARN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The o'er clouded sun again will shine Last Line: Where 'georgie' waits for you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MRS. R. O. CLARK, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The clouds loom up, the wild winds bluster Last Line: When we shall reach that sunbright shore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MS. ANN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to forget Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TO MS. ANN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to forget Last Line: And it has only been forever and %I will have to forget your face Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY BLOOD SISTER, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: Yes, I was the head of our halloween horse Subject(s): Family Life TO MY BROTHER ON HIS WEDDING DAY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Thou hast left the home circle my brother Last Line: Be lost, but blended in one! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MY BROTHER, WHO DIED BEFORE I WAS BORN, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You're everything I strive to say but can't Last Line: To name this spirit before it is gone Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrors are to come. The earth Last Line: Though the pain of them is on me Subject(s): Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrors are to come. The earth Last Line: Your eyes turning toward me, %can I wish your lives unmade %though the pain of them is on me Subject(s): Family Life; Parents TO MY DAUGHTER GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: One day it will not be enough Last Line: And with your whole heart %you'll know where you've come. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO MY FATHER AT EIGHTY-TWO, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where has your neatness gone Last Line: You once lived %on the far side of ruin Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters TO MY FIRST-BORN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: My own, my child, with strange delight I look upon thy face Last Line: To shield thy heart from passion's strife and fix its hope on heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Children; Grief; Hearts; Life; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY FRIEND GILBERT NEVILLE, FROM WREST, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I breathe, sweet ghib, the temperate air of wrest Last Line: To keep the memory of our arms alive. Subject(s): Country Life TO MY FRIEND, MR. JOHN ANDERSON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that the city life embrace Last Line: To wish thee here, jack. Subject(s): Country Life TO MY FRIEND, ON LOSING HIS MOTHER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When it seems the field will stay yellow Last Line: To be licked, sound asleep, the memory %coming near enough to touch. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO MY HOME, by DALIA SABBAGH Poem Source First Line: To my dear home Last Line: Its time to let you go Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home TO MY HUSBAND, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: How casually you take my slate and school Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY HUSBAND, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking of the time - darling Last Line: And angel 'bove the skies Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MY MOTHER, by GREG DELANTY Poem Source First Line: You took a deep breath. It was by what we weren't told Last Line: Not turn out a breath for a breath Subject(s): Consolation; Life TO MY MOTHER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: You loved the roses. I heard you say Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND ON HER PLAY, FATAL-FRIENDSHIP, by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: With what concern I sat and heard you play Last Line: Our mutual friendship, may ne'er fatal be. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Nature; Plays & Playwrights TO MY SISTER, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Say angela dost thou ever Last Line: And we shall find our castle there Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO MY SON, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: These many years I've sought to shelter you Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY SON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, and be happy Last Line: Possess your soul; that you alone can save Subject(s): Life Change Events TO MY WIFE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who else, dear eyes of brown, could know or dream Last Line: To think how suddenly life's partings come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO NOWHERE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry my keys like a weapon Last Line: On a mission to nowhere Subject(s): Fear; Keys; City & Town Life TO ONE ABOUT TO DIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For thee time weaves her silver thread Last Line: But leave thee, as he made thee, fair. Subject(s): Life TO ONE UNBORN, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: With eyes that use not earthly light or color Last Line: My child's grandchild, yet to be born on earth. Subject(s): Future Life; Imaginary Conversations; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO PASOLINI: 8. LOVE FOR THE DRAGON, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For pasolini, the question was, each day: Last Line: As pasolini wished to, the child of this letter Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975); Conduct Of Life TO PAULA, ON HER BIRTHDAY, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Today on your 45th birthday, you wish to be Last Line: Your leg was bleeding, and you hadn't even been aware. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TO PHYLLIS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou must wander in these woods Last Line: The shift of multiplicity Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TO PLUNGE UPWARDS IS THE WAY OF THE SPARK, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With our gold death - and that is my reply! Subject(s): Life Change Events TO RISE AGAIN, by GERTRUDE SCOTT JEWELL Poem Source First Line: We must not be afraid to walk apart Subject(s): Farm Life TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most tangible of all the gods that Last Line: Take us as children to thy heart again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint TO SARAH, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Farewell dearest friend, and o in thy wanderings Last Line: To part never more in heaven's bright land Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TO SHAKESPEARE, by DONALD BAIN Poem Text First Line: We know you knew, but know not how you knew Last Line: Transmigrant over all the lands and seas. Subject(s): Dramatists; Genius; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO SIR ROBERT WROTH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest art thou, canst love the country, wroth Last Line: Though mayst think life, a thing but lent. Subject(s): Life; Wroth, Sir Robert (1576-1614) TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I wrought out these fitful danaan rhymes Last Line: Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Life; Conversation TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husbandman, for work prepare Last Line: Finds an early tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy Last Line: Farewell!—dear boy, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise TO THE CONDOUR, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Poised there against the cliffs no one can say Last Line: Unloved lone watcher of eternity. Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE COUNTESS OF POMFRET: LIFE AT RICHKINGS, by FRANCES (THYNNE) SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: We sometimes ride, and sometimes walk Last Line: And find enough to blame within. Alternate Author Name(s): Hertford, Countess Of; Somerset, Duchess Of Subject(s): Country Life TO THE DEAD (A PARAPHRASE), by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, gone, and is the light Last Line: I shall be with thee; we again may smile. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE DUKE OF YORK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May his pretty duke-ship grow Last Line: Through the world, but writ in gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE GAUCHAS OF SALTA, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: My sisters of salta Last Line: We have much to speak of Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TO THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful height! O joy! The whole world's Last Line: Than honey—the earth of thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism TO THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No permanent possession of the sky Last Line: Your rusting, huddled, fragmentary bones. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KING, TO CURE THE EVIL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find that tree of life, whose fruits did feed Last Line: Mine is the evill, but the cure, the kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The TO THE LAST HEATH HEN, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: What brought thee to this fate, lone bird forlorn? Last Line: And end a chapter in the life earth rears. Subject(s): Life; Survival TO THE LORD OF LIFE, by LEWIS ANGUS YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Thy glory glows in the golden dawn Last Line: Great lord of life, o bountiful giver! Subject(s): God; Life; Praise TO THE MAIDS TO WALKE ABROAD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come sit we under yonder tree Last Line: A kiss to each; and so we'l end. Subject(s): Country Life TO THE MASTER POET, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: They do you wrong who paint you, wondrous man Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds Last Line: One note ere day departs! Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO THE QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddesse of youth, and lady of the spring Last Line: And be both princesse here, and poetresse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past / fences the first sheepmen cast across the land, processions Subject(s): Life; Nostalgia TO THE RING NEBULA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pallid spectre of the midnight skies Last Line: Alike obey the power pervading space. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Soul TO THE TRAVELLER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Mine is this fount, mine all that greets your view Last Line: Tis not enough? There is no more. Pass on! Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Weariness TO THE WEST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In my heart %the flame subsides Last Line: On my way out %to the west Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Remorse; Travel TO THEE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: Our love, without shadows or reproaches, now counts Last Line: Of a little cloud and a little azure! Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human smiles and human moan Last Line: To live for love, and for love's sake to die. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Praise; Smiles; Dead, The; Destiny TO TOWN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never laughed or saw the need for laughter Subject(s): City & Town Life TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TO VENERATE THE SIMPLE DAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Termed mortality! Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life TO W. HOHENZOLLERN: A PLEA, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, my william, when I had vivacity Last Line: About such things as who will win the pennant! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Life TO W.P.: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With you a part of me hath passed away Last Line: What I keep of you, or you rob from me. Variant Title(s): For Those Once Mine Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893); Dead, The TO WALLACE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I'm not applauding cathouse towns in idaho, Last Line: Like ol' casey on a bronc, wallace, reppin' for the legendary, keeps the old west young. Subject(s): Cowboys; Poetry And Poets; Ranch Life TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem! Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips TO YOU, RABINDRANATH, by RUBY RAHMAN Poem Source First Line: You too had debts, daughters to give in marriage, grief Last Line: In the waters of your fountain, these days and nights %in no way could wash clean Subject(s): Life TO---- ----, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With memory's eyes I see to-day Last Line: We're far apart to-day! Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Memory TO-DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun will set at day's decline Last Line: Allons! Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Memory TO-MORROW, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: In thought I wandered where time lays his dead Last Line: Eternity, secure, to me is left. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TOAD DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream of toads: we rarely Subject(s): Dreams; Animals; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares TOAST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: After we sail %the landlocked sea Last Line: Cheers to my dear %and only brother! Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TOBACCO MEN, by JAMES APPLEWHITE Poem Source First Line: Late fall finishes the season for marketing Last Line: A cloud's high forehead wears ice Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking TODAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And if tomorrow shall be sad Last Line: At least today Subject(s): Life;soldiers;time TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World TODAY I HAD TO, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Today I said it Last Line: Seemed like I had to Subject(s): Country Life TODAY I LIKE LIFE MUCH LESS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And always, much always, always, always! Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Life TODAY IS SUNDAY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life TOKEN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They call it the formless absolute Last Line: Leaves only a small foot mark when it goes Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life TOLD IN THE MARKET-PLACE, by EDWINA STANTON BABCOCK Poem Source First Line: That day the doves with burnished breasts Last Line: He gace. He healed us! I, who had been %blind from my birth - I saw the nazarene! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry TOMMY [ATKINS], by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer Last Line: An' tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that tommy sees! Variant Title(s): Tommy Subject(s): Army Life; England; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; English TOMORROW, by JOHN COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining Last Line: May become everlasting to-morrow. Subject(s): Country Life; Retirement TOMORROW, by HILDA L. NORMAN Poem Text First Line: Though life be but a day Last Line: So fair as the seeming. Subject(s): Life TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've smoked thirteen cigarettes today: I'm breathless Subject(s): Italy; Family Life; Italians; Relatives TOO HUMAN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many are strong enough to reject riches? Last Line: And the scourge of need. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TOO LATE, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Twas the same glance 'twas the same voice Last Line: It lay there limp and dead Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Weather; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TOO OLD TO TRANSPLANT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark left the hills for unaccustomed streets Last Line: Whose tap root withers, and green branches die Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TOO SCANTY 'TWAS TO DIE FOR YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The respite to be dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 1013; Poem: 102 Subject(s): Life TOP HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: I've rode the high side Last Line: Where men hit life hard %and gotta be top hand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TORNADO BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I uster own the chickabee farm Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tornadoes TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOTING IT UP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bought one pair of boots, then another Last Line: In the distance, that brightly disappearing speck Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TOUGH GOODBYE, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: He stood there by the windmill, and gazed out over his spread Last Line: But as he heads for his truck he knows, it'll take all he's got to do it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TOUR OF DUTY: ENTRY, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Arrived in khakis, overseas cap, bloused boots Last Line: Noticing all around me m-16's %slung like toys on the backs of the ones in green Subject(s): Army Life TOUR OF DUTY: R & R, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Out of tan son nhut flying to bangkok Last Line: But what I've kept %is miss moore, handing me my cool white cloth Subject(s): Army Life TOUR OF DUTY: WORK, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I am a white, episcopal-raised, almost Last Line: Packing his lunch. I must tell tri what next Subject(s): Army Life TOURNIQUET, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: He danced for the king; for his courtiers; the clown Last Line: Over his heart ... To stifle its cry. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOWARD SUNRISE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in old days, our fathers came Last Line: That cometh soon or late. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The TOWARD THE WOODS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who were there stood Last Line: They are draped in a sarong or toga %their penises scored with age Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Family Life TOWARD WINTER'S END, by MARY R. MASTROMARCHI Poem Text First Line: Toward winter's end, my meager mind beholds Last Line: And awaken for the spring at winter's end. Subject(s): Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last! Last Line: Written—and of this book. Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I HEARD A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice say unto me Last Line: And that shall suffice for thy life. Subject(s): Democracy; Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A LONG JOURNEY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long insatiable yearning of the mortal creature Last Line: Way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A VOICE OVER THE EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of a voice floating round the earth Last Line: "wench: she cries, ""how good, how good it is, o come again!" Subject(s): Civilization; Farm Life; Fields; Peasantry; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER CIVILISATION (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the first soft winds of spring, while snow yet lay on the ground Last Line: Looking out over the earth, on which he was once a mortal. Subject(s): Democracy; Life Change Events; Modern Man TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A DREAM OF HUMAN LIFE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I saw a wild and lonely promontory Last Line: Went past it to all parts of the world. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Human Race TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after centuries, when the tension and strain Last Line: And they achieved a real distinction, and the finest kind of aristocracy. Subject(s): Humanity; Modern Life; Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LIFE BEHIND LIFE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What joys, what strange joys, lurk behind the actual Last Line: Creating new joys, fiercer wilder than those of old. Subject(s): Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BABE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe Last Line: And herein all creation. Subject(s): Babies; Creation; Family Life; Love; Infants; Relatives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years are nothing Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness. Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO SHALL COMMAND THE HEART (1), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the starry lightnings and the life Last Line: Forsakes this world and seeks a fairer one. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Universe; World TOWARDS HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Near castle butte, the clouds Last Line: Never ending road Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life TOWER OF A COUNTRY TOWN, by SSU-MA KUANG Poem Source First Line: A solitary tower Last Line: I instruct the officers to reduce taxes; %it won't do to let farming suffer Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape TOWN AND COUNTRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I was reared %in the great city, pent Subject(s): Country Life TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought, my cousin, it's extremely queer Last Line: And mean to come again another year. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life TOWN NAMED BUCKLE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: During the revolutionary war Last Line: Here's hoping you live forever %and I never die Subject(s): Life; Towns TRACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What trace of me marks hills Last Line: As the trackless wind Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRACK OF A STORM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We grieve for the twelve trees we lost last night Last Line: Lay claim to light and liberty at last Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TRACTOR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tractor stands frozen - an agony Last Line: And the tractor, streaming with sweat, %raging and trembling and rejoicing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Farm Life; Tractors TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRAGEDIES: 5, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: For love is like the china-rose Last Line: Lasts ever, like the pot-pourri. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Life; Love TRAGICOMEDY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a mute spectator in the pit Last Line: And shall I read its meaning as it ends? Subject(s): Comedy; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Dramatists TRAGOS, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The heart of man is cleft by two desires Last Line: Then vanishes and leaves all dark behind. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Life; Mankind; Human Race TRAIL'S END, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: Is this the end of all adventuring Last Line: What is death's meaning but life just begun? Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRAIN RIDE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan Last Line: The great grove leans to wind, past and to come. Subject(s): Consolation; Life TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sitting outside the small house near the orchard Last Line: She cocks her head at the applesound Subject(s): Books; Country Life; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Memory TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii TRANSIT MUNDUS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another winter comes. The last comes soon, I know Last Line: Though after me one come, and take the abandoned place. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; France; Life; Moon; Winter TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TRANSLATIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE, by B. G. THURSTON Poem Source First Line: Today I walk inside my frozen footprints Last Line: My true name is written on the water %and the sun remembers me Subject(s): Future Life TRANSPLANTED, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: He takes 63's calf Last Line: He feels her gaze %steady upon her Subject(s): Ranch Life TRANSPLANTED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Katrina thought she could forget Last Line: And branch of her adopted land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER Poem Text First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TRAPPING SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It's open season and I kneel before the yawning hole Last Line: So gather around! As usual, the treat is on the house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because everything still bears Last Line: Of green. Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips TRAVELING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wrap myself in morning mist Last Line: With no two days the same Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAVELING AS A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the desert of itabira Last Line: The family, itabira, the rest Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Silence TRAVELLER'S REST, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you are tired of the long road and the open sky Subject(s): Country Life TREADMILL, by HARRY ELMORE HURD Poem Text First Line: The treadmill turns - the fruiting season swings Last Line: And death the prelude to life just begun. Subject(s): Future Life; Treadmills; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TREASURE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: When I cowboyed for the old zr Last Line: The old ways are the best ways %bulls were meant to drive, not lead! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TREASURE HUNTER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Walking down %from the ridge Last Line: Cradling my newest treasure %my turtle shell Subject(s): Country Life TREE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not everyone can see the tree, its summer cloud of green Last Line: Book to light, you will see the watermarks of their faces Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Life; Trees TREE OF LIFE, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own attitude towards death has never been one of fear Last Line: Me; the tree itself grows and endures Subject(s): Life Change Events TREE-TOP ROAD, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Country Life; Religion TREED, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: There a squirrel %up that tree Last Line: Is a good place %to be Subject(s): Country Life TREES AND CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A ccow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TREES AND CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A cow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life TRIADS: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the sun to the sky Last Line: Who knows all three? Subject(s): Life; Nature; Secrets; Sun TRIALS OF A SPRING POET, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down beneath a tree Last Line: In safety in the city. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Creative Ability; Urban Life; Inspiration; Creativity TRIBAL GODDESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The circassian eye lashes %of this goddess Last Line: Leaving me to smudges %of noise without a name Subject(s): Family Life - India TRIBUTE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: All the ingredients we need: Last Line: Waiting with spring flowers scarce as hen's teeth, %our hearts beating like mad. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love TRIED AND TRUE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is like a march, where some Last Line: White raiment on the hills of peace. Subject(s): Friendship; Conduct Of Life TRILINGUAL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I can talk %black Last Line: So no %one %understands Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness TRIMMING THE CHRISTMAS TREE, AFTER YOUR MOTHER'S STROKE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We are looking for a small tree. If we stand it Last Line: From on high, inaudible as a dog whistle Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Family Life; Holidays TRIPOLI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the singing on the boats Last Line: Tripoli! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean TRISTAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all sorts of weather tristan Subject(s): Sea; Children; Desire; Friendship; Family Life; Ocean; Childhood; Relatives TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 6. JOYOUS GARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little time, o love, a little light Last Line: And life in them sank silent as the night. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Sea; Tristram And Isolde; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: TRISTRAM AND ISEULT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, that is first and last of all things made Last Line: From morning into morning, sea to sea. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul TRIVIAL DETAIL, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Text First Line: Floating on the water in the a.R.P. Bucket Last Line: Extraordinarily happy. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Life; War; Bugs; Ladybugs TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can life be a blessing Last Line: When we hope, when we hope to be happy again. Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs TROMPE POEIL IN WINTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Everything white, the lake's cheek, turns Last Line: Beyond the moon and past the frigid stars Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TROOP TRAIN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Last Line: The place of life found after trains and death - %nightfall of nations brilliant after war Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii TROPHY, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Each year he makes Last Line: From the mothering spruce %into a welcome bullet Subject(s): Ranch Life TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: AGAINST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the medieval village, 'decisions respecting plowing Last Line: And smack their silly heads against the trees Subject(s): Farm Life TROUT POOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Feathers and ferns of light Last Line: Swim in dark water Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRUANTS, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The moonbeams live, pulsate, and dance Last Line: To a punishment they had earned. Subject(s): Absence; Babies; Family Life; Separation; Isolation; Infants; Relatives TRUE CULTURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The highest culture is to speak no ill Last Line: From common lips like weeds from marshy soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Culture Conflict; Life TRUE GREATNESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad that all great things are sad Last Line: With baby flowers at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TRUE LIFE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come with us up from the ground %to the village of breathable air!' Subject(s): Life; Villages TRUE LIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hast thou nothing but thy dreams Last Line: In that true light of living dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares TRUE LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, fair heretic, it needs must be Last Line: And would love more, could I but love thee less. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Life Change Events TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: A yellow cat is sitting in my doorway Last Line: If I had walked with you last night we would have seen the stars Subject(s): Lies; Life; Truth TRUE ROYALTY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a queen like balkis Last Line: Rudyard kipling. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TRUE WAYS OF KNOWING, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not an ounce excessive, not an inch too little Last Line: If it had our way of knowing Subject(s): Life Change Events TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Last Line: And left the vivid air signed with their honour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War TRUST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came, I go, at his behest Last Line: Strong as a father's tenderness. Subject(s): Life; Love; Trust TRUST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lies are mean and sharp Last Line: You can trust me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRUTH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man with his burning soul %has but an hour of breath Last Line: The ship my striving made %may see night fade Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?' Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TRYING, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: He has, by his wife's reckoning, failed so often Last Line: No one but he can see the good he's done Subject(s): Family Life TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do? Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TULIP FIELDS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It could be the netherlands here Last Line: That follow the tractor-plough, %like odd white tulips %in seas of red Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TUMBLING OF WORMS, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in the thirties, in the midst of the depression, I fled the city Last Line: I never saw the old darned man again Variant Title(s): The Old Darned Ma Subject(s): Farm Life TURKS ARE GONE!, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh winds blow the frost Last Line: How will I find fierce warriors to guard my land all around? Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life TURN AGAIN TO LIFE, by MARY LEE HALL Poem Source First Line: If I should die and leave you here awhile Last Line: And I perchance may therein comfort you! Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TURN OF EVENTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Nothing is what it seems to be. Even when reading Last Line: We watch as flat entities come to life and take flight, %our eyes widening in surprise Subject(s): Change; Life TURNING YOUR DEATH INTO RALPH LAUREN, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: In hell I'll be wearing ralph lauren Last Line: Have hanging in your closet now? Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Death; Family Life; Psychoanalysis TURTLE CROSSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no hurry in his legs Last Line: And draws back in his sculptured shell Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TURVEY TOP, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Twas after a supper of norfolk brawn Last Line: And would flourish in turvey top. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nonsense; Nightmares TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Last Line: The instructor grinned. %boy, if your ass %is as hard as your head, %you'll go far in this world Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life TWAS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE HE WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In that campaign inscrutable %of the interior Variant Title(s): Poem: 1188; Poem: 123 Subject(s): Life TWELFE NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now the mirth comes Last Line: As when ye innocent met here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWELVE ARTICLES, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest it may more quarrels breed Last Line: And continue special friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TWELVE MONTHS IN A ROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Take them, love them, let them go Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWELVE SONGS: 12, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love's a little boy Last Line: O tell me the truth about love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; War TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace Subject(s): Modern Life TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace Last Line: That third-rail, million-volt exclamation mark, that ditto, ditto, ditto, %that stop, stop, go Subject(s): Life, Modern TWENTY QUESTIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason Subject(s): Middle Age; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations TWENTY WAYS TO TIE A SARONG, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I'm fleeing the city - back to pine trees Last Line: We can always go to yuca, the [or, that] cuban upscale club for show-biz types Subject(s): Abandonment; Country Life; Nature TWENTY-FOUR LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days Subject(s): Time; Life; Poetry & Poets TWENTY-THREE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was 23 and beautiful Subject(s): Youth; Human Bedhavior; Conduct Of Life TWICE CURSED, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Bristling with fallen trees Last Line: Convert my woes to verse? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TWILIGHT DOOR, by JEANNETTE DERBY Poem Text First Line: Twilight is-to most-a rising wall that brings the / dark Last Line: Knowing that the dead most live! Subject(s): Life TWILIGHT TIME, by MILDRED SOUTHWORTH BRYAN Poem Text First Line: When the sun has gone behind the hill Last Line: When we can all be together! Subject(s): Evening; Family Life; Sunset; Twilight; Relatives TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO CROWNS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The king of glory Last Line: Is king of kings. Subject(s): Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO DRESSES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I had three dresses Subject(s): Farm Life TWO FRESCOES, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down there where europe's arms Last Line: Rose over africa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO GENERATIONS, by ZENOBIA CRUTCHER FEINEMAN Poem Text First Line: Crowned with silver braids - her evening Last Line: And rock it to a military beat. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: LUSH LIFE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have gone to stringtown Last Line: Between the fern and dark thighs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Nature TWO JOURNEYS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A short step from birth to death Last Line: The grain of innocence. Subject(s): Aging; Bodies; Life TWO LITTLE CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A old man gazed on a photograph Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life TWO LOVES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep within my heart of hearts, dear Last Line: Yours, and yours alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Trust TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy; Urban Life TWO OCTAVES: 1, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms Subject(s): Life TWO PURSUITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice said, 'follow, follow'; and I rose Last Line: And will not leave me till I shall go hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Religion; Voices; Theology TWO QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of the soft, wild rose Last Line: Life, is there more for me? Subject(s): Life TWO SAT DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two sat down in the morning time Last Line: Yet is blazoned in lines of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Morning; Singing & Singers TWO SONGS FOR RICHARD WILBUR: 1.LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Auden lost in clerihews Last Line: Acquired grain by grain? %only you remain Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TWO SONGS FOR RICHARD WILBUR: 2.THE LAST BELIEVER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When like a clipper ship Last Line: That teaches unbelievers to rejoice Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TWO SONNETS: 2, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That which made me was bred of ache and bleeding Last Line: An immortality to touch and cherish. Subject(s): Life TWO SUNSETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair morning of his life Last Line: And strikes the holiest feelings dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Evening; Hearts; Life; Punishment; Sunset; Twilight TWO THINGS IN LIFE THAT I REALLY LOVE, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: There's two things in life %that I really love Last Line: I may rest %between the two things %that I love best Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter, / she never would love me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter / so beautiful to see Last Line: Has yet caught me. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover Last Line: And the sun of freedom shall shine across our graves to the ages!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Freedom; Socialism; Urban Life; Liberty TWO WOMEN, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The answer to all loneliness %may yet swallow us Last Line: At an upward point %of the vanishing ascent Subject(s): Family Life - India TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joke used to be: / if you don't like it Subject(s): Rivers; Pollution; Houses; Family Life; Relatives TWO-SEATER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnnie and rufus before bedtime Last Line: They laugh again, %then wipe, %pull up their pajamas %and race in to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life ULTIMA SPES MORTUORUM, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells will ring to-morrow for the day Last Line: And, by the living spurned, deludes the dead! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ULTIMATE HARVEST, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: How shall man apprehend eternity? Last Line: Was sown all beauty and desire. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNABLE TO FIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE: 1, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: From one darkness Last Line: Moon on the mountain rim! Subject(s): Life UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE: 2, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: Being a person Last Line: Ah, the pity, the pity Subject(s): Life UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE: 3, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: So forlorn am I Last Line: From my body in longing Subject(s): Life UNCLE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: He sips coffeee Last Line: Had hot tempers, and did %their own law-making Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNCLE CLAUDE, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life UNCLE DAN'L IN TOWN OVER SUNDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cain't git used to city ways Last Line: Wisht I hed you home with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Sabbath; Towns; Sunday UNCLE GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some catastrophes are better than others Last Line: Held summer and winter against the slow blizzard, the sky Subject(s): Farm Life UNCLE JOHN FIDDLER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked down on greasy, greasy Last Line: To hear the lord himself afiddling. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Roosters; Agriculture; Farmers; Cocks UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers UNCLE TOM'S SAWMILL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: The whine of the saw Last Line: Slaves to drive %our own way Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Ranch Life UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle william, last july Last Line: Smile, and wipe my eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; July; Uncles; Dead, The; Relatives UNCONSCIOUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds, the stars, and the skies though Last Line: Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature UNCROWNED, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: The ogre leaps with massing hands Last Line: And no blood-basted armies fish it back. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UNDER A SOPRANO SKY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived on pillars in a green house Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life UNDER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the house of my father's childhood Last Line: Dried and crumbled, grain by grain, in the night breezes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Grandparents UNDER RONDOUT RESERVOIR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Water holds no tracks Last Line: They travel now Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life UNDER THE HUNTER MOON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: I slip the rifle sling over my shoulder Last Line: Her eyes hold me accountable Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers UNDER THE ROOF OF MEMORY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please help us keep your memory alive Last Line: We longed to keep a ravenous world at bay %by gazing down its glare and speaking well Subject(s): Family Life UNDER THE SHADOW OF KILEY'S HILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where they all were bred Last Line: Under the shadow of kiley's hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness UNDER THREAT OF DISASTER, by HENRY PICOLA Poem Text First Line: Always shall I remember Last Line: And bade me follow him! Subject(s): Leadership; Life; Memory UNDERTONES, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: When this today Last Line: To find eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 20. TO F. J. S., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, dear friend, in your dear face Last Line: Your flowers and thorns you bring with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Friendship; Life UNDEVELOPED LIVES, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not every thought can find its words Last Line: Dim lands beyond the sea. Subject(s): Life UNFORGOTTEN, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I know not in what distant land Subject(s): Farm Life UNFORGOTTEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh unforgotten! / how long ago? One spirit saith Last Line: The single grain shall wax to ten. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Youth; Dead, The UNFORGOTTEN, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Some things there are I can't forget Subject(s): Farm Life UNHAPPY FATHER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It makes poor father's spirit sad, when he Last Line: "thy victory, oh, death, where is thy sting?" Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire %never knew about rock gut charlie Last Line: And show him the little unpainted arrows Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Life, Modern; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he'd begun to say Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Future Life; Coffins; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a law outside the daily racket, Last Line: The law inside the law inside the law Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gift for all our waking in this life Last Line: Is, said the man, a dreamless, mindless sleep Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Life; Sleep UNINITIATED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Who hath not walked beside the sea Last Line: Where god's bright beacon fires burn. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNINTENTIONAL COUNTER-CONTEMPLATIVE OPAQUE DISUNITIES, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I popped you up side the head with the harp of a piano Subject(s): Conduct Of Life UNINVITED GUEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Clothed in his full dress suit of black and white Last Line: So hold your nose! We came out second best Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life UNION OF YOU AND ME, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is for the union of you and me Last Line: To choose the beloved Subject(s): Life Change Events UNION SONG, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Our country called her sons to save Last Line: The stars and stripes - the free Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNION SONG; 'ON TO RICHMOND!', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: On to richmond! Lead the way! Last Line: And bless with victory Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNITED FRUIT CO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the trumpets had sounded and all Last Line: In the vat of the carrion, fruit laden and foul Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Farm Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 1. ON THE INVISIBLE ONE WHO COMES, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: What is it %keeps coming Last Line: Now I understand the difficulty %of mating with invisibles Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 2. CONFRONTING THE ANGEL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Who is this %that's always wanting to be me Last Line: Forgetting all else %while the worlds turned over Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 3. THE OTHER, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I can stand it %that you arrive with no name Last Line: When you are not here, %with me? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNKNOWN ANGEL: 4. THE UNKNOWN ANGEL, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I think you are Last Line: A subtle shifting %of the dancer's pose Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNLESS I GO DOWN TOWN TO GET IT STRETCHED, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Before the tractor crashed into a beech Subject(s): Farm Life UNLIT LAMP, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: You're doing it again Last Line: Through the corridors %with an unlit lamp Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life UNSEEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are more things in heaven and earth Last Line: And know a world of mystery is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Nature; Wisdom UNTAMED LOVE, by TERRY MULERT Poem Source First Line: We meet in grandma's Last Line: Against the screen Subject(s): Family Life; Love UNTIL DEATH, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend Last Line: But while I live, be true! Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Behavior; Faithfulness; Constancy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature UNTIL IT DOESN'T, by HAMISH IRONSIDE Poem Source First Line: There are those who weep at beauty Last Line: Ground the unqualifiably human %flagrant in sudden hallways Subject(s): Death; Life UNTIL SOLD DO US PART, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Joanna & george, married, mangled, %have bought the house next door Last Line: Marriages may come apart %but a house keeps its equity Subject(s): Family Life - India UNTIL WE BUILT A CABIN, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: When we lived in a city Last Line: Stars there really are! Subject(s): Country Life; Stars UNTILLABLE HILLS, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: A small, silent, bearded man Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains UNTITLED, by ZACH BERGER Poem Source First Line: However many books I read Last Line: From his bridle the farmer has hung %pretty golden bells Subject(s): Farm Life UNTITLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I come from a rich family Last Line: And you must meet them before I can follow you home Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry UNTITLED; 'LONG AGO GONE', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Long ago gone now I am alone Last Line: For christ with his blood eternal life bought Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNTITLED; 'MY LIFE HAS BEEN', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: My life has been spent in wandering arouond Last Line: That beat in these bosoms - now cold Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNTITLED; 'THESE HILLOCKS', by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: These hillocks are all that is left to me clare Last Line: When I 'neath the grasses am lain Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNUTTERED THOUGHTS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I love to read the silent thoughts Last Line: Is shrined one little thought for me Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio UNVEILING THE MONUMENT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veil remove. Now let the curtain rise Last Line: And guard his own in future rolling years. Subject(s): Life; Monuments; Peace; War UNWEDDED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her there in the evening sun Last Line: You waste your pity on such as she. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Love; Marriage; Women; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UP AWAY FROM AROUND HERE, by ANDREA HOAG Poem Source First Line: Prefabricated fuchsia nails Last Line: Impersonality %for the %21st century Subject(s): Future; Life; Numbers UP FROM EARTH'S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATE, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drink! - for once dead you never shall return.' Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events UP FROM THE EARTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Up from the earth the voices came Last Line: Into eternity? Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural UP MOONHAW ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Up moonhaw road the maples burn Last Line: The unbelievable was there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips UPON HIMSELF (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, leave this loathed country-life, and then Last Line: Though granges do not love thee, cities shall. Subject(s): Country Life UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness UPON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH LANGHAM, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Pass not, but wonder, and amazed stand Last Line: Installed with bliss, and hallelejahs sound. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin UPON YE SIGHT OF MY ABORTIVE BIRTH YE 31TH: OF DECEMBER 1657, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What birth is this; a poore despissed creature? Last Line: Amend it lord; & keepe it still with thee: Subject(s): Birth; Death; God; Life; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is high noon over upper broadway Last Line: Dionysos has swallowed apollo Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; City & Town Life UPPER CRUST, by DICK HAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Breeding is important Last Line: Is thoroughly well-bred Subject(s): Blood; Family Life UPPER PENINSULA LANDSCAPE WITH AUNTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Home from casino or fish fry Last Line: Through needles' eyes %to the shimmering kingdom of heaven Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Women UPPER-TEN, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big annie washed white people's linen Last Line: Chief wright's laughter %rang back from the mirrors. %pomp atwood's only son %was a man Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life UPPITY WOMAN IN FEBRUARY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: She lives on a blue ridge with a wrap-around view Last Line: With more to come Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina UPTOWN LOVE POEM, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind it so much any more Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This muses story, that a princes cares Last Line: William basse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Kindness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens URBAN GALLERY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature USELESSNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let mine not be that saddest fate of all Last Line: "she lives, but all her usefulness is past." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Trees; Dead, The; Destiny VACANCIES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Out of my body %I take my loneliness Last Line: I've anchored bone %to a family of mirrors Subject(s): Family Life - India VACATION, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The spirit of life has wrought upon the world Last Line: In whom we live, and move, and have our being. Subject(s): Life; Nature VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters VACATION IN THE COUNTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I lived in the country every day Last Line: To find some place to hide, and stay behind. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Vacation; Childhood VACATION TALE, by BRIAN BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: In a small house where farmhands had slept Last Line: Swallowed up in the wind? Subject(s): Farm Life; Vacation VAIN EXCUSE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, life, when love is at the gate Last Line: Be patient now with death, for love has passed. Variant Title(s): Dialogue Subject(s): Death; Idleness; Life; Love; Patience; Waiting; Dead, The; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence VALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may deep country beckon and ope and Last Line: And let him walk with thee about thy shepherd's business. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement VALEDICTION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You failed me, farmer, I was afraid you would Last Line: Through the long night that waits upon your span Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life VALENTINE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Cling to your life Subject(s): Life Change Events VALENTINE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a red rose or a satin heart Last Line: Its scent will cling to your fingers, %cling to your knife Subject(s): Life Change Events VALENTINE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Carved with a pen knife on a gray beech bole Last Line: Inconstant love upon the constant tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VALENTINE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm behind curtains drawn to shut on february's cold Last Line: How %can all that here and now of then not be for ever? Subject(s): Future Life VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of joy and grief Last Line: You guide, & I your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALLEY OF THE HEAVENS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resplendent precinct of the skies Last Line: Leadst them through Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Peace; Soul VALUES, by EVERARD ROY MOON Poem Text First Line: A dew - drenched morning Last Line: When wrought in soul, is everlasting. Subject(s): Spiritual Life VAN GOGH'S EAR, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Think of his ear shooting swiftly %through the century Last Line: The seams of its scream %pulled apart like a zipper Subject(s): Family Life - India VARIATION ON 'HARD TRAVELING', by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: Towards evening the piping grew mournful Last Line: In one battle you can get made a nobleman - %no more yearning now for the women's rooms! Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life VARIOUSLY US, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something breaches the ocean of doctrine Last Line: Of the mind wedged in us, shaping Subject(s): Life VASHTI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all great shushan's palaces was there Last Line: "he will but bless me when he doth repent!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Love; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VAUDEVILLE, by MARGERY DOUD Poem Text First Line: Acrobats -- cruelly torturing muscles Last Line: The audience roars! Subject(s): Acrobats & Acrobatism; Theater & Theaters; Vaudeville; Stage Life VEALERS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come forth with all four legs folded in Last Line: Their perfect flesh unstreaked with blood %or muscle, and we will eat Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life VEGA, by JUDITH SKILLMAN Poem Source First Line: This hard bit Last Line: Than the one she was meant to be Subject(s): Life VEILED MEMORIES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of love that was, of friendship in the days Last Line: Is woven through the soul's strange warp and woof. Subject(s): Life; Love; Memory; Time VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen VENICE'S WINE SEA FEEDS WINE, by DANEEN WARDROP Poem Source Last Line: And there are many Subject(s): City And Town Life; Travel VENUS - AGHIA SOPHIA, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: Above the waves Last Line: To the universal heart of the fire Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion VERMONT, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man next door came after three bitter days Last Line: No one could bring one's self to thank anyone for Subject(s): Poverty; Farm Life; Lilacs VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What fun it used to be to feel Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont Last Line: As dry as our insides. Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week Last Line: The goldenrod and asters. Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERNAL EQUINOX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: While all the while I anguish Last Line: Birth was like that, a blue beginning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland VERSAILLES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day at versailles the great louis survey'd Last Line: "is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Windmills; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSES ON TEXTS: 1 TIM. 6, 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A life is before thee which cannot decay Last Line: Safe and blest for aye. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen VERSES TO BEE SETT OVER THE ROSE AND THISLE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Devynelie did your royall moate presage Last Line: The goulden senten fostred in your brest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSES WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord? Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?' Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VERSIFICATION OF THE SPEECH OF GEOORGIN TO BEYUN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seest thou yon shelter'd vale of various dye Last Line: To great khi-kusroo's court a turkish fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes VESPERS, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: A linnet pulls a tuft of cowhair Last Line: The flames of a hundred asian poppies nodding red, %then the descending quiet Subject(s): Farm Life VI, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer stretches beside me with its cat's yawn. Subject(s): City & Town Life VI ET ARMIS, by ANDREW DOWNING Poem Text First Line: Tis an ancient roman proverb Last Line: You can conquer if you will! Subject(s): Courage; Life; Strength; Victory; Valor; Bravery VIA CRUCIS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark we come, nor know Last Line: End in the lonely figure of a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Life; Religion; Theology VIA DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days of a man are threescore years and ten Last Line: February 15, 1887. Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Bedtime VIA DOLOROSA: 1. TRANSFIGURATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But half a man's days - and his days were nights Last Line: And eyes that meet a brother's now not blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The VIA DOLOROSA: 4. LIBITINA VERTICORDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of sleep, healer of life, divine Last Line: That if they wake their life is sweet as sleep. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The VIA SATELLITE, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Half a world away I hear Last Line: Her voice again, hear her soft hello Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers VICES OF THE MODERN WORLD, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Modern delinquents %are authorized to meet Subject(s): Life, Modern VICTORY, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rescue mission where it isnt freezing Last Line: Into hip-hop? Dunnobut its wonderful Subject(s): Youth; Social Commentary; City & Town Life VICTORY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that gathered round the light of hope Last Line: That god does little in the struggles of the race. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Soul; Victory; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VICTORY OVER DEATH, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think that victory over death is anything so superficial Last Line: The fact that s/he lived, and was the kind of person s/he was Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Life Change Events VIE DE JESUS; ON HEARING OF A FORTHCOMING CHEAP EDITION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of pleasant phrase, but narrow span Last Line: A frail young saint, in lieu of god the word! Subject(s): Books; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Reading VIEW FROM A HIGH LEDGE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: My spiritual idiocies for want a better word Last Line: The islands bodies drinking in the waves Subject(s): Spiritual Life VIEW FROM DUFFY'S FARM, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The door is all but broken Last Line: A room whose door is broken Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Farm Life VIEW FROM MY FATHER'S PORCH, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Five hundred guests upon a summer's day Subject(s): Family Life VIEW FROM THE HOTEL LOBBY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleary by noon, the whitewashed Subject(s): City & Town Life; Landscape VIEWPOINT, by NANCY S. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Pa passed away ten years ago Last Line: Eyes closed in tearless sockets, %altering the past Subject(s): Death; Family Life VIGIL, by CAROL S. WESTBERG Poem Source First Line: I'll find no other life. This friday is no rehearsal Last Line: At this meal - so sweet and sharp, so fleeting Subject(s): Accidents; Change; Children; Family Life VILLA ON ZHONG-NAN MOUNTAIN, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: In my middle years I came to much love the way Last Line: By chance I meet old men in the woods; %we laugh and chat, no fixed time to turn home Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life VILLA PLINIANA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands where darkly wooded cliffs Last Line: O roman poet, dost thou know? Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul VILLAGE LIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Across the valley strange with dusk Last Line: And far and bleak the moon and mars! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VILLANELLE OF THINGS AMUSING, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the things that make me laugh Last Line: And I've missed of too many jokes by half! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Jokes; Laughter; Life VILNIUS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For a long time Last Line: I doubted if I should ever come back Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VINCENT, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: If he could shed this husk Last Line: A golden pinwheel in a field %of lavender Subject(s): Farm Life VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VIOLIN SONGS: AT MY WINDOW AFTER SUNSET, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven and the sea attend the dying day Last Line: Eternal love is my eternal prayer. Subject(s): Death; Evening; God; Life; Love; Prayer; Solitude; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: BEDTIME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, children, put away your toys Last Line: Coming to carry us to bed. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Sleep; Childhood; Relatives VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With some pot-fury rauisht from their wit Last Line: For euery peasants brasse, on each scaffold. Subject(s): Fortune; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy were galen to be weigh'd in gold Last Line: Purchaseth realmes, and life prolonged brings. Subject(s): Death; Health; Life; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho dares vpbraid these open rimes of mine Last Line: Rather than say I doted in my age. Subject(s): Death; Thames (river); Theater & Theaters; Dead, The; Stage Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvhat boots it pontice, tho thou could'st discourse Last Line: More than his life, or lands, or golden line. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life; Nature; War; Heritage; Heredity VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would now that matho were the satirist Last Line: Mammon himselfe shalbe a citizen. Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Murder; Reading; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: House-keeping's dead, saturio: wot'st thou where? Last Line: I din'd at virro his owne boord to day? Subject(s): Life; Pity VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre. Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes VIRTUE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now? Why -- / whirlpools of / orange and purple flame Last Line: Gold watch chains. Come! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken what we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War VISIBILITY ZERO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken and we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii VISION, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: It is a thread - a tiny, shining thread Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry VISION, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Here lies a dreamer Last Line: Shall make it less. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Vision; Nightmares VISION OF COLUMBUS, SELS., by JOEL BARLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame Last Line: Repay thy labours and remove thy pain Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Life Change Events; Nations; Peace VISIONS IN VERSE: 1. SLANDER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely girl, I write for you Last Line: And skulk'd away to shun the light. Subject(s): Defamation; Human Behavior; Slander; Libel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is deceiv'd by outward show Last Line: And inconsistent dreams of day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Friendship - False Friends; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Fair Weather Friends VISIONS IN VERSE: 8. LIFE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not the young my precepts shun Last Line: The genius suddenly withdrew. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VISIONS IN VERSE: 9. DEATH. VISION THE LAST, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought my visions are too grave Last Line: And triumph'd in the thoughts of death! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VISIT, by VIC COCCIMIGLIO Poem Source First Line: Here, in my parents' home Subject(s): Family Life; Parents VISIT HOME, by WILLIAM FABRYCKI Poem Source First Line: In her picnic basket Last Line: In the old farmhouse of my father. %it is my visit Subject(s): Family Life; Home VISITING DAMARIS AT THE INFIRMARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After a lifetime filled with books Last Line: For me to kiss when it is time for me to go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VISITING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY CHURCH, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: The women wear black stockings Last Line: Amen. Amen. Now we can eat Variant Title(s): Visiting My Mother's Family's Churc Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Service VISITOR, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In a life narrowed to beans and rice Last Line: On a first date Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina VISTAS OF LABOR: 2. THE MINER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up creaks the car; he leaves his ghastly dream Last Line: And once again life is a nightmare dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; God; Life; Love; Mines & Miners; Nightmares VISTAS OF LABOR: 4. FACTORY CHILDREN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here toil the striplings, who should be a-swarm Last Line: "my kingdom is made up of such as these." Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories; Life; Religion; Youth; Theology VITA BREVIS EST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray thing, life, and the bright thing, love Last Line: Then the woven boughs, and the long cool rest. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Life; Love; World; Paradise VITA; AN ALLEGORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O most mighty, most glorious Last Line: With their arms entwined.) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed VOICE OF THE MIRROR, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So life passes, like an odd mirage Subject(s): Life VOICE OF THE MIRROR, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So life passes, like an odd mirage Last Line: That vomits its funeral march into the void Subject(s): Life VOICES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with anxious heart and wondering ear Last Line: The speech and music of immortal things. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Country Life VOYAGE OF LIFE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I launched my bark upon a waveless sea Last Line: Of love eternal moored my bark forever. Subject(s): Life VOYAGES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Someone while we sleep %in the soft hues of our longing Last Line: Having felt nothing %outside of our thoughts Subject(s): Family Life - India VULAR, THE COMIC, AND THE WRETCHED SUBSCRIBE TO THE SAME MAGAZINES, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: Who lived all as one in a pretty how town Last Line: Plastic credit and microwave %roll us rock us the night away Subject(s): Life; United States WAFFLEBUTT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reveille rung on the telephone awakes Last Line: Where day and day destroys us after all Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics WAFFLEBUTT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reveille rung on the telephone awakes Last Line: Where day and day destroys us after all Subject(s): Army Life WAGON TRAIN MINSTREL, by ALICE SHEFLER MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I meant to stay and finish the plowing and Subject(s): Farm Life WAIT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go not far in the land of light! Last Line: Wait, my darling, wait. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WAIT 'TIL YOU BECOME A MAN, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: I remember seeing men Last Line: Maybe I've become a man Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WAITING, by JOHN HERSCHEL Poem Source First Line: Things don't happen, they appear Last Line: That raises and lowers %the level of the glass Subject(s): Life WAITING, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Beside the table sitting Last Line: Now she must undo that thing inside her %that tells her to wait Subject(s): Death; Ranch Life WAITING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again have come the evening tides Last Line: Already filled with pain and strife. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Waiting; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAITING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore dwell so sad and lonely Last Line: "waiting, watching, hoping, still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Love; Waiting; Women WAITING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: The jeweled cloud sways overhead Last Line: Finer and finer arrangements of light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WAITING FOR OCTAVIAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Alexandria danced and drank as though Last Line: What could be subtler than the aspic's bite? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO TURN UP, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why do you throw down your hoe by the way Last Line: "and take up your hoe, and move on!" Subject(s): Indolence; Farm Life; Work WAITING FOR THE TRAIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: These phantoms down the street, don't tell me Last Line: The train's in, northbound, where cold begins Subject(s): Family Life - China WAITING WITH YOU, by JULIE BROOKS BARBOUR Poem Source Last Line: Tell him we'll paint the bedroom and buy new drapes, %maybe a couch for the den Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Dogs; Life; Waiting WAITRESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She brings a drink to the table Last Line: Beyond these late-night, nearly empty streets Subject(s): Life; Night; Waiting WAKE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A casket that couldn't care less Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Relatives; Burials WAKE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A casket that couldn't care less Last Line: Heavy black doors opening and closing Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals WAKING ON THE FARM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember the early mornings - how the stubble Subject(s): Morning; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WALES: A GREETING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild land beyond sabrina's wave Last Line: The ever-climbing footsteps of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Wales; Dead, The; Destiny; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Familiar woods are strange with fog Last Line: And woods are sensible with light Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to walk with Last Line: Bluejay and crow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALKER ON THE BEACH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out on the beach the lonely figure walks Last Line: And has the secret knowledge none may share Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALKING AROUND A BEND ON A COUNTRY ROAD, by GERALD WALLERSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: Wondering if that was the form %my own fury took Subject(s): Country Life WALKING ON TIPTOE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago we quit lifting our heels Subject(s): Animals; Conduct Of Life WALL, EARLY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: It's just a brick wall lining the alley Last Line: Another local hero is dead. A plane hums closer Subject(s): Cities; Life; Walls WALLS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: There's nothing beyond my windows! Last Line: It all, as I grow old Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG [NACHTLIED], by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ueber allen gipfeln Subject(s): Country Life WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WANG STREAM COLLECTION': LODGE IN THE BAMBOO, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I sit alone in bamboo that hides me Last Line: The bright moon comes to shine on me Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song Last Line: The battle to the strong. Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WARNING, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: The jaybird says, 'put on your shoes Last Line: I'll have your whole sandwich!' Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life WARNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Keep away from mirrors Last Line: Is an old woman's face Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: She sits in my lap Last Line: Is truly the scary part? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WARNING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Pure at heart we wander now Last Line: Then is sadness and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Optimism WARNING 1957, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Unleash the fires within the earth Last Line: Breathe life back into lifeless clay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING TO WHODUNIT FANS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Text First Line: You like your murders gory when they're safely in a story Last Line: When you awake and find yourself with a murder on your hand! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WAS, IS, AND YET-TO-BE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "and this alone,"" said practical is" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's folks that look like other folks Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WASHING THE DARLINGS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Mornings he wasn't crocked on ripple Last Line: And rinse %till the water came sparkling Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Schools WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WASHING THE GRAIN, by YASMINE GOONERATNE Poem Source First Line: Round and round the year tilts Last Line: Out upon the wattles and dry grass Subject(s): Farm Life WASHING WINDOWS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: All day we make our clockwise circle around the house Subject(s): Family Life WASHINGTON, by EVALYN TERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: O washington, the beautiful, our city glorious Last Line: Salute our washington! Subject(s): Cities; Love; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect WASP, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapt in aurelian filth and slime Last Line: So stunned, so bruised, he scarce can crawl Subject(s): Birth; Life WATCH, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Watching it closely, respecting its mystery, Subject(s): Bees; Sycamore Trees; Conduct Of Life; Beekeeping WATCHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I live alone above the lake Last Line: Watching %watching? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WATCHING JOANN CASTLE PLAY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Saturday nights before mom and dad Last Line: Shes even been to new orleans Subject(s): Entertainers; Family Life; Television; Welk, Lawrence (1903-1992) WATCHING THE FEEDER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has been falling, and the purple finches Last Line: For existence itself Subject(s): Snow; Birds; Life WATCHING THE STUFF ON THE NEWS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Watching the stuff on the news Last Line: Something will make it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water WATERLILY FIRE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WATERPOT, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: The daily going out Last Line: There's a waterpot growing %from her head Subject(s): Farm Life WAVES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sighed of old till underneath his feet Last Line: A sigh for rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life WAY I SEE ANY HOPE FOR LATER, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Stop looking. %start loving Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WAY OF LIFE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's been going on a long time Last Line: Smoking and shaving and drinking the dry beer Subject(s): Life, Modern WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN Poem Source First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WAYS TO SEE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: A waterfall is one way river sheds its skin Last Line: And to know, oh, the sad ways the heart boils dry Subject(s): Family Life; History WE ARE EACH A SECRET TO THE OTHER, by ALBERT SCHWEITZER Poem Source Last Line: Precious what comes back to you from them Subject(s): Life Change Events WE ARE NOT STRANGERS, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: We are not strangers surely Last Line: And be thy sisters friend Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We are talking about %the ones who pick their friends Last Line: Golden from the %inside %out Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WE BOUGHT A FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We bought a farm - but we bought more than land Last Line: Lives on forever with the living earth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WE CAME THEN TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY I EVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE DID NOT FEAR THE FATHER, by CHARLES FORT Poem Source First Line: We did not fear the father as the barber who stood Last Line: We did not fear our father until he stooped in the dark Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Fathers WE FEED THE BLUE JAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The opportunity to do so narrows Subject(s): Life; Nature WE GO HOME, by A. MARY MURPHY Poem Source Last Line: To give her %things I might like Subject(s): Farm Life; Home WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: They're still my grown-ups Subject(s): Family Life WE LAY US DOWN TO SLEEP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Bedtime; Life; Death; God WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries WE MANAGE MOST WHEN WE MANAGE SMALL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What things are steadfast? Not the birds Last Line: This fishing in the air Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WE MAY NOT KNOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fragile figure robed in costly gown Last Line: Weighs human motives, thoughts, and deeds aright. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE MEET AGAIN, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: We meet again, so many years Last Line: In one eternal rest Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WE MUST TRY NOT TO LIE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: We must try not to lie so much Last Line: Sometimes I walk around naked. %since then I go for days without saying a word Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WE SHOULD HAVE WALKED TOWARD THE FARTHEST STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Improper fractions; what is three times three? Last Line: But I was busy, so I could not teach! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WE UNBORN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awake: / midnight, star-shouldered, is leaning over me Last Line: I am thy unborn, mother, moving toward the morn of my nativity. Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WE'RE BUILDING THE SHIP AS WE SAIL IT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first fear / being drowning Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Life WE, THE INHERITORS, by JAMES CHRASTA Poem Source First Line: These are the lands our sires Subject(s): Farm Life WEAKNESS, by BERNARD O'DONOGHUE Poem Source First Line: It was the frosty early hours when finally Last Line: Of the shocked boy's twenty-year-old jacket Subject(s): Farm Life; Sickness WEALTH OF NATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of the gawking. Conspicuous Last Line: Putting out after the khrushchev thaw Subject(s): Modern Life; Social Commentaries WEANING TIME, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: She rides with the men as morning sun Last Line: Beginning to fill the empty corral Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WEAPONS TRAINING, by BRUCE DAWE Poem Source First Line: And when I say eyes right I want to hear Last Line: And you know what you are? You're dead dead dead Subject(s): Army Life WEARINESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowy sails, silvery sails Last Line: On the strand of peace. Subject(s): Life; Peace; Sailing & Sailors WEARINESS OF MEN, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WEARY CIRCLES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's the desire to return, to love, to not be absent Last Line: There's the desire to remain rooted in this verse! Subject(s): Life WEATHER, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's something about a cool october mornin' Last Line: There's no place I'd trade for this ranch Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WEAVING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stands before her loom Last Line: "thy sister's keeper know thou art!" Subject(s): Life; Nature; Weaving & Weavers; Women WEB OF WONDERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have assumed the world was made for me Last Line: I should give thanks that room was left for me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEDDING, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: How could I know all ten Last Line: We climbed the stairs and closed the door Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Marriage WEDDING DRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lize kept the dress for over fifty years Last Line: The wedding dress would fit her when she died Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEDDING SERMON, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Deny the plow that furrows land. Division Last Line: Circle as I bring it to her finger Subject(s): Farm Life WEEK-END INDIAN, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: In red wool jacket and earflaps Last Line: Thinking it to be only %the grave of an animal Subject(s): Family Life; History WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How water is run Last Line: Unexpected company %or %tipped back in a ladderback %watching ants %climb up your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Calm; Country Life WEEKEND VISIT, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: I think of nothing Subject(s): Family Life WEEVILLY WHEAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I won't have none of your weevily wheat Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WEIGHT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, the ones Last Line: They carried like a weight Subject(s): Life; Salespersons WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: This christmas you came all the way Last Line: Yours from this day forward, to have %and to hold. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WELL, by YVES BONNEFOY Poem Source First Line: You hear the chain striking the wall Last Line: There is joy, then the chain overwhelms it Subject(s): Life; Wells WENDOVER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love Last Line: Low lying on wendover town.' Subject(s): Life; Love; Peace; Shadows WEST FOURTH STREET, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sycamores are leafing out Subject(s): Imigrants; City & Town Life; Greenwich Village, New York City WEST OF BLUE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Someone said you just got tired Last Line: Full of all your empty things Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WEST TEXAS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in west texas where the sun Last Line: Ain't no place %for a colored %man to stay! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WESTERN KENTUCKY FARMER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: He soaks his calloused hands Last Line: Of the finest kentucky home cooking Subject(s): Books; Farm Life; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets WHAT A DAINTY LIFE THE MILKMAID LEADS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And merrily passes the time away Subject(s): Cows;farm Life; Agriculture;farmers WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life WHAT ARE WE RAISING, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You know how it is, what with children around Last Line: But what are we raising here? Children, or grass? Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives WHAT DOES IT MEAN?, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source Last Line: The secret cunning %of this silent earth Subject(s): Buddhism; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Life; Religion WHAT GRIEVING WAS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was not the summer of aspic Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT HAVE I GOT EXACTLY?, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And to show enthusiasm, and free at times to invade my silences Subject(s): Life Change Events WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHAT HE SAW, by ROBERT CURRIE Poem Source First Line: Yarrow hears the scream Subject(s): Family Life WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true Last Line: And the good that I can do. Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology WHAT I WANT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that's what I want right now Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT I WANT TO LEARN, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: Horses steam Last Line: Before the beavers came and %I want to learn them too Subject(s): Learning; Life WHAT I'M SAYING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I'm saying isn't exactly news Last Line: Once you decide to live, you have to lose. Subject(s): Life; Loss WHAT IF I SAY I SHALL NOT WAIT?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or who diedyesterday! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Last Line: A woman. Canning when there's time. It will be %very cold soon. Already there are dark rains Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece WHAT IS GIVEN, by LAUREL RUST Poem Source First Line: Jeans soaked to the thighs Last Line: One by one, all summer Subject(s): Life WHAT IS GOOD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the water call Subject(s): Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Mothers WHAT IS HAPPENING, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Moment to moment %we ask, what is happening? Last Line: The final break-up of ice? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHAT IS LIFE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life WHAT IS LIFE?, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resembles life what once was deemed of light Last Line: A war-embrace of wrestling life and death? Subject(s): Life WHAT IS SUCCESS?, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To laugh often and love much, to win Last Line: This is to have succeeded Subject(s): Life Change Events WHAT IS THIS ABOVE THY HEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sinner, or saint Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Sin; Life Choices WHAT IS THIS WORLD TO ME?, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So verteue fades away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Life WHAT KEEPS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live on a hillside Last Line: Between us %drinking deep Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Is someone who knew you Last Line: I'll see you again Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Memory WHAT LIFE HATH, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life hath its barren years Last Line: Hail! Mount of all delights. Subject(s): Life; Moon WHAT LOVES, TAKES AWAY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the nose of the pig in the market of firenze Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WHAT MYTHS AND DREAMS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This earth's a giant pudding stone Last Line: And makes new myths to light the dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT NOW SEEMS SILENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What music does the spinning spider hear Last Line: The swishing spider web as death appears - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT SHE SAID ON A LEWD LUTE NIGHT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I go to ashenda Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There wasn't two purtier farms in the state Last Line: And leave agriculture alone -- and the browns. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Horticulture; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS DID, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They got so hungry they all Last Line: Ate the more they wanted Subject(s): Corporate Life WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city was full of blue devils Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WHAT THE COUNTRY MAN KNOWS BY HEART, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Why he lives there he can't say Last Line: And blood beats the walls of his heart Subject(s): Life; Men; Self; Silence WHAT THE FARMER SAW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: John d. Rockefeller, he Last Line: Seemed as pleased as pleased could be. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937); Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They said that the planet would vibrate Last Line: Merely the terror of the real Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHAT THE WIND SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse to-day, in a listless way Last Line: The winter storm-king sigh.' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature; Wind; Human Race WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT LOVE: 2., by STEVEN SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: I've lived in a red house Last Line: The round earth and all its bones %beneath Subject(s): Houses; Life WHAT TIME WILL GIVE US, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: What time will give us, if we take it, Last Line: Work lost, when one touch would clear the way, %when one time would save the day. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WHAT TITLE?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What title best befits the man Last Line: The highest, noblest name -- the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Americans; Leadership; Life; Nations; Patriotism WHAT TO DO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh my love and my own own deary Last Line: While my life goes creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Sleep WHAT WE COME TO, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: I'm running late as usual Last Line: From all there is, hour by hour, it approaches %what we come to Subject(s): Life WHAT WE HAVE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain / the neighbor's dog, put out in the cold Last Line: That I think, when looking back, was happiness. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Happiness; Poverty; Retrospection; Relatives; Joy; Delight WHAT WE HAVE LOVED, by DARLENE FERN MATHIS-EDDY Poem Source First Line: Near the steep banks by the flowing river Last Line: School is out %teacher has gone home Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Teaching And Teachers; Time WHAT WENT YE OUT TO SEE?, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea, along the shore Last Line: And not as do the scribes. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry WHAT WILL IT BE, O MY SOUL, WHAT WILL IT BE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rest and revive and rejoice, to rejoice and to rest Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices WHAT YOU HAVE TO GET OVER, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stumps. Railroad tracks. Early sicknesses, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT'S BROKEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slate black sky. The middle step Subject(s): Time; Life WHAT'S LEFT OF THE WEST, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Manifest destiny ain't had a rest Last Line: Take a jet back to cleveland and dream Subject(s): Ranch Life WHAT'S NEXT?, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby carriage was old, one wheel lopsided Last Line: As she stood still. What next? Subject(s): Mothers; Life Choices WHAT'S SUPPRESSED, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream I'm a detective a man Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHAT'S THAT YOU SAID?, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Logos. Eat %through flesh, gnaw Last Line: The word is a house well founded. %the table is laid. Subject(s): Death; Future Life WHAT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthening as secret manna Last Line: But oh how sweet the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Nightmares WHAT??!!, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: The honeymoon was in full swing Last Line: And he sure is special to me Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHEAT ELEVATORS (MINNESOTA), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles, or titans' houses, or huge fanes Last Line: Or joseph stored egyptian corn away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN A BOY PLAYS IN THE YARD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For fear some folks are reading Subject(s): Boys; Play; Home Life; Manners WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Last Line: To broadway as a country road. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History WHEN COWBOYS CRY, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: In a nearly shadowed corner Last Line: For chrissake, among friends, then where Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN ELSE, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My grandfather goes out for bagels Last Line: Who has no bank account of her own Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Life WHEN EVERYTHING HAS THE ALLUSION OF WATER, by VICKI L. VIETTI Poem Source First Line: I lived on the mississippi river Last Line: My mother will wear it always Subject(s): Life; Water WHEN FORTH THE SHEPHERD LEADS THE FLOCK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Never sighing alas! Subject(s): Country Life WHEN GRANDA LEFT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I had never seen him like that before Last Line: As if granda himself had come back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WHEN HE COMES, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: When jesus came in humble mien to do the father's will Last Line: May the world accord him welcome as the shepherds did that night. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary WHEN I AM OLD..., by LEO LARGUIER Poem Text First Line: When I am old and poet of renown Last Line: And this poor laurel of a glorious name. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Love; Memory WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAME, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: I will be sentenced to repeating it forever Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Life Change Events WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAME, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WHEN I READ THE BOOK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I read the book, the biography famous Last Line: I seek for my own use to trace out here.) Subject(s): Life WHEN I SHALL RISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall rise, and full of many fears Last Line: As once they stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I WANDER WITH DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life is a fleeting breath Last Line: Let me find love's long-lost day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I WAS YOUNG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That good river that flowed backward Last Line: The clocks, though, still pursue what they endlessly loved Subject(s): Farm Life WHEN IT'S BEEN LONG BETWEEN POEMS, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: You speed through the day with your eye Last Line: Your grandmother singing o precious lord, %calling you in from the porch. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here's what you need when it's time to tap Last Line: A small boy hustling to hang the buckets up Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN LINDA BAKES A CAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When linda bakes, the very kitchen changes Last Line: Wearing her mother's apron, playing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN LIVING QUIETLY AT WANG-CHUAN I GAVE THIS TO PEI DI, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Cold mountains grow ever more azure gray Last Line: Now once again I meet jie yu, the drunk, %that reckless singer before the five willows Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers; Urban Life WHEN THE AMBULANCE CAME, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants WHEN THE WILD ROSES BLOOM AGAIN BESIDE THE RIVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They were roaming in the gloaming Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN THEY ASKED, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: I had the answers Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WHEN THEY KILLED JIM LEE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I loved the tales my grandsire told Subject(s): Farm Life WHEN WE STUMBLE AND FIND IT, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: We all have our favorite themes Last Line: Which will spring open %and reveal the undefined Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Last Line: Of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life WHEN WORDS FIRST SPOKE TO ME, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: When words first spoke to me -- Last Line: Hemorrhagic septicemia hemorrhagic septicemia Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE, by ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Poem Source Last Line: Winged life, of the ebb and flow, of intermittency Subject(s): Life Change Events WHEN YOU START ON YOUR JOURNEY TO ITHACA, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You must surely have understood by then what ithacas mean Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Life Change Events WHEN YOU WALK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you walk in a field Last Line: The beautiful clouds go by! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Walking; Urban Life WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN YOU'VE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You breathe yellow smoke, you breathe lead Last Line: As the doors open and no one comes on Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE ART THOU TO NIGHT?, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Where art thou to night, and why do I miss thee? Last Line: Said good by the last time - to ne'er meet again Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WHERE DREAMS COME FROM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl slams the door of her little room Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; Ambition; Family Life; Relatives WHERE I ONCE LIVED AS SHOWN TO A FRIEND, by TOM FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: My 'home-seat' is down there Last Line: As either an adult toy store or a pancake house Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home WHERE I'LL BE GOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting leads to worse than oddity. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Middle Age WHERE IS THE BABYLONIAN METER WITH ITS LOVELY CAESURA?, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Biggest problem in the world now is unity Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE NEVER TEMPEST HEAVETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor harvest faileth, / reap Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War WHERE WE LIVE NOW, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live here because the houses Subject(s): Home; Family Life; Relatives WHERE WILL I GO?, by NEZAHUALCOYOTL Poem Source Last Line: Where are our friends?' %rejoice! Subject(s): Future Life WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign? Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails WHILE I GIVE, by VAL D. CONDER Poem Source First Line: I lie there thinking Last Line: That keeps giving Subject(s): Life WHILE I LIVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of language as the sun Last Line: But you must wait / while I live Subject(s): Language; Life WHIRLIGIGS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bearded men: one chops a log Last Line: Waving our arms to scare the crows away Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHISKEY BILL: A FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-down the road and gun in hand Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHISTLER'S MOTHER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father said his mother bought it for him Last Line: It was the only art my father owned Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life WHISTLING IN SPRING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: In the top %of my cedar tree Last Line: Spring is coming %spring is coming Subject(s): Country Life WHITE, by HOLLY DAY Poem Source First Line: You give me refuge Last Line: Silent strong idols that %don't interrupt Subject(s): Life WHITE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of poverty Subject(s): White (color); Conduct Of Life WHITE AUTUMN, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had always loved to read, even Subject(s): Chairs; Family Life WHITE EYES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends & relatives Last Line: & everybody was watching. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips WHITE MOTHS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Espaliered / to a radiator grille Subject(s): Moths; Death; Life WHITE NOISE, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WHITE SMOKE, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Our fathers twisted hay for fuel; their sons now twist their / lives Last Line: High dreams are dead and life will have its fire. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Parents; Optimism; Parenthood WHITE STAR OF TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each love-thought in thy mind doth rise Last Line: In thee, white star of time! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Heaven; Longing; Spiritual Life; Paradise WHITE STEPS, by MARY MOSES MUNDT Poem Text First Line: At night old women sit on their white steps Last Line: But now you sit—perhaps god meant it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Mundt, Mrs. Karl E. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Women; Youth WHO DIE, LOVING THE GOOD EARTH, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: For yet a little while Subject(s): Farm Life WHO WANTS TO LOSE THE WORTLD?, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the light of the v ital body Subject(s): Life WHO WOULD FORGET?, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Could I see thee once more as in youth's bright morning Last Line: Yet who craves oblivion? - who would forget? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHOEVER WENT IN, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source Last Line: Hold rock turning to light Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHOLE LOAD, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In a western town in the days of old Last Line: But I wouldn't feed her the whole durn load Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHOM THE GODS LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young . Ah, do not doubt of it Last Line: Laughing her gay girl's laughter, glad through eternity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens WHOM THE GODS LOVE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Give me thy youth, give me thy urgent youth Last Line: Give me thy life. Subject(s): Life WHOSE MAN GOES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And how I envy them Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WHOSE TREE IS THIS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The tree of the owl Last Line: Beware %look up Subject(s): Country Life WHY, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: Something inside me %constantly bleeds towards god Last Line: Thats why I keep writing, %slipping messages under the door Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WHY COUNT THE YEARS?, by FLORENCE JENKINSON WHITE Poem Text First Line: Why count the years? The worth of life Last Line: Who sees life as a whole. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Time WHY DO I, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweet death, kind death, %of all the gods you are best Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Life Change Events WHY DO WE LIVE?, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my body, my eyes, my mouth Last Line: Save to expand the widening realms of death! Subject(s): Birth; Life; Child Birth; Midwifery WHY DON'T YOU GET TRANSFERRED, DAD?, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Likes & Dislikes; Moving; Relatives WHY I NEVER WENT INTO POLITICS, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: My son %I promised you a world and see Subject(s): Family Life WHY LIFE IS SWEET, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because it cometh up, a heavenly flower Last Line: Sweet, sweet is life! He hath abolished death! Subject(s): Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHY?, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new year comes with her radiant face Last Line: Why you were taken, and I left here? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Life WIDOW, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: The old dear had fished all his life Last Line: Then...That's it for today!' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WIDOW OF NAIM [OR, NAIN], by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The men that cut their graves in the grey rocks Last Line: Promised to all the widow-church's risen children.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WIDOW OLSON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: So we passed this neat little ranch Last Line: A day's ride ahead Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WIDOW TO HER SON, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have taken up the dulcimer again Last Line: To say a heart is not a stone Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Family Life WIDOW'S WALK, SOMEWHERE INLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This landlocked house should grace a harbor Subject(s): Fanily Life WIDOWHOOD, by MARY ELIZABETH B. CROUSE Poem Text First Line: Now is she crowned with perfectness at last Last Line: She labors, knowing that heaven hath her life. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Widows & Widowers; Work; Workers WIFE, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: He leaves her on the farm, where doors don't lock Last Line: In mud as she crams white bolls in gunny sacks Subject(s): Farm Life WIG, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: I hated that styrofoam skull, your faceless, white Last Line: This was war. But where could a daughter hide? Subject(s): Family Life; Hair WIGHT, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark we disappear, pure being Subject(s): Life WILD AND RECKLESS HOBO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WILD BALLAD, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Between the stag and the little gazelle Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WILD BILL JONES (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I went out for to take a little walk Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WILD CAT MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wild cat mountain crouches in the catskills Last Line: If I could find the magic that would set him free %to prowl! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD FLOWERS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Moving to the prairies, there are things you should know Last Line: Wild flowers, warnings Subject(s): Flowers; Ranch Life WILD GARDENS OVERLOOKED BY NIGHT LIGHTS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Parking lot trucks overlooked by night lights. Buildings Subject(s): City & Town Life; Reality WILD GEESE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not have to be good Subject(s): Geese; Despair; Conduct Of Life WILD GEESE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Chill winds blowing Subject(s): Farm Life WILD GEESE FLYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Pulled by some vast immeasurable tide Last Line: Shut out the hoarse, deep calls... The air is chill Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD MAY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aleta mentions in her tender letters Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives WILD ONE GOES, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A spavined mare limps out Last Line: Though, christ, the skies are clear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WILD STRAWBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Strawberries should be eaten from a little tin bucket Last Line: I think I've always known that I couldn't go back - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No house can hold me when wild strawberries Last Line: I cannot keep this wild strawberry day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Remember wild strawberry days Last Line: And sharp and sweet as remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY JAM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In this gleaming jar of wild strawberry jam Last Line: That nobody owns! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD THYME IN HILLSIDE PASTURES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They say this same sweet wild thyme blooms Last Line: The days come back on wild bees' wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILDE AND PASOLINI IN HEAVEN FOR DAVID ST. JOHN, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: At first they'll eye each other warily: Last Line: As years pass: each man kills the thing he loves % basta - that sweet punk made tire-ruts on my gr Variant Title(s): Wilde And Pasolini In Heave Subject(s): Future Life WILDERNESS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the jordan straight his way he took Last Line: Chaos without, and chaos reigned within, %subdued and conquered by the might of prayer Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WILDERNESS IS TAMED, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The axe has cut the forest down Last Line: The rivers bridged, the new towns named Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Frontier And Pioneer Life WILL THESE HANDS NE'ER BE CLEAN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet Last Line: But thou shalt not forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Vengeance; Dead, The WILL YOU LOVE ME, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Will you love me more dear than another? Last Line: Never, can we love but one! Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WILLIAM CORBY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drive my cows to corby Last Line: When william corby's dead! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens! Last Line: In chaucer's heir. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty WILLIE DOWN BY THE POND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They tell 'tis sinful to flirt Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WILLINGLY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get up he has been long at work, Last Line: What has been done with your life, willingly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WILTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossom, thou and I Last Line: Haply, more eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WIND IN THE HOLLOW, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life WINDOW IN A WALL, by MITCHELL LESCARBEAU Poem Source First Line: When with a pettiness derived Last Line: Of their claws, each to each Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage WINDOW VIEW FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: The wind gives spasmodic moans this evening Last Line: Wept for me, and will not weep again? Subject(s): Family Life - China WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues WINDS OF LIFE, by MARJORIE DUGDALE ASHE Poem Text First Line: Ever the wind beats on my fastened door Last Line: Silence and darkness and a shrouded calm. Subject(s): Life; Wind WINE AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tender grass, 'neath a laurel-tree Last Line: Who saves his goods for his heirs! Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Dead, The; Wine WINNERS AND LOSERS, by BOYCE HOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men born in little towns Last Line: You get the same total? Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Human Behavior; Prudence; Success; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caution WINTER GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Filigree of junco tracks Last Line: These tiny gleaners seek! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WINTER JOURNEY, by UWE-MICHAEL GUTZSCHHAHN Poem Source First Line: And I think Last Line: From their wooden boxes Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER MEMORY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: We ate you up, little pig Last Line: Under the smoke-laden, ash-filled sky Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Farm Life; Pigs WINTER SETTLES DOWN, by MILDRED ANN HOBBS Poem Source First Line: The fields and hills are white tonight Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER SOLSTICE, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Work horses, eyes closed Last Line: Telephone wires were lonely %without birds Subject(s): Ranch Life WINTER SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: 1, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Why do I think of lilacs? It must be Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: 2, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Lo! In this world god places side by side Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER STORES, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We take from life one little share Last Line: Life's evening hours will bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Transience; Life; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The WINTER SUNSET, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Not in a cringing way Last Line: Goes down to die. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The WINTER TWILIGHT, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: The autumn days are past Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER WORDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day in a high room between Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life WISDOM, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The WISDOM: EULOGY OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy Last Line: And she governs the whole world for its good Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISDOM: SOLOMON'S LOVE FOR WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth Last Line: What is more wealthy than wisdom whose work is everywhere? Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May you live a thousand years Subject(s): Life; Wishes WISH AT SPRING PLOWING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spring plowing here has always turned up stones Last Line: And never know the dragon's teeth again! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WISH FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lizard, my lively writher Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love WISH FOR A YOUNG WIFE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lizard, my lively writher Last Line: When I am no one Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love WISH FOR MY CHILDREN, by EVANGELINE PATERSON Poem Source First Line: On this doorstep I stand Last Line: All webs of my weaving Subject(s): Life Change Events WIT'S ABUSE, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: I ask not why astrea fled away Last Line: And can with borrow'd beams be always bright. Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul WITCH, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I was always a nice girl Last Line: It is themselves they taste? Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WITCH HAZEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From mustard gold to golden rod Last Line: Witch hazel's unexpected gold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: What a conflict, he said Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Landscape WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH HER BRUSH, THE ARTIST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Touches one part of her life %with another Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art And Artists; Life; Nature WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT, by RON PADGETT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WITH MY MOTHER AND AUNTS IN THE KITCHEN, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: While the rest of us watch a football game Last Line: No on tells me to go, %so I sit in the empty chair and listen Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Mothers WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING, by DAVID RICKS Poem Source First Line: They pose here, each with a little venomous Last Line: The life from you, by strychnine poisoning Subject(s): Life WITH THE ARMY: A BALLAD, by LUO BIN-WANG Poem Source First Line: What matters in their lives: to be seen with respect Last Line: It is right that they die to repay their lord Subject(s): Army Life; Frontier And Pioneer Life WITH THE ARMY; A BALLAD, by WANG JIAN Poem Source First Line: The house of han pursues the khan Last Line: I have heard tell that in western liang-zhou %in every household the women weep Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life WITH THE ARMY; A BALLAD, by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: A bugle blown set marchers in motion Last Line: We have bound the necks of their foremost chiefs %and go back to present them to the emperor Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life WITH THE CARAVAN, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closer the curtain. Still the sun is flame Last Line: Are the gates wide, hasán? Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH YOU, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have them back again Last Line: With you, sweet heart, with you! Subject(s): Courage; Life; Love; Tears; Valor; Bravery WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism WITHHELD, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therein is sunlight, and sweet sound Last Line: How sweeter than all sweet it is. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Love; Optimism WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WITHOUT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew I was without Last Line: My father's arms, my father's voice Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If every man's internal care Last Line: Their lot appeared the best. Subject(s): Life WITHOUT CONSENT - WITHOUT ADVICE, by DORY LEVISS Poem Source First Line: There is an absurdity to our lives, that is Last Line: All this without consent, without advice from %-- you or me? Subject(s): Life WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: One morning of ancestral ash Last Line: Why did they discover this last savage land? Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Country Life; Native Americans WITHOUT TONGUES: FAMILY STORIES, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: Under the sky, blue, gray, hazardous with rain Last Line: Say this is our home, let us stay Subject(s): Family Life WIVES BY THE DOZEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death! How thou spoil'st the best project of life! Last Line: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WO/MEN, by CHIQUI VICIOSO Poem Source First Line: Wo/men draped in black Last Line: Iron women, rock women Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Farm Life; Women WOLF AND THE SHEEP, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: - I've got you, said the wolf, and yawned. The sheep Last Line: Sacrifice yourselves for the moral Subject(s): Life; Sacrifices; Sheep; Wolves WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents WOMAN IN THE PETER PAN COLLAR, by BROOKE HORVATH Poem Source First Line: It is 1953, and my mother stands, so young, slim, in a calf-length woolen Last Line: Never be again Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers And Sons WOMAN OF THE LAND, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Her name won't be in history books Last Line: Her heart is where it wants to be - %this woman of the land Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN WALKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An oblique cloud of purple smoke Last Line: I might well see you oftener. Subject(s): Country Life; Women; Desire WOMAN WHO FED GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It sounds so simple Last Line: And of her scent, which I did not know Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A CAVE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: It was cold there. %at night Last Line: And unfolds, %moonlight, darkness Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LOVED THE GOD, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: They are a curious lot, %their odd names Last Line: To the lover, %his body of moist cloud Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO LOVED THE GODDESS, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: At the end %nothing could save her Last Line: To the band of jeering boys %who trailed her, half-afraid Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE BEAR, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: There were two women, sisters Last Line: Now that is the end Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans WOMAN WHO SLEPT WITH SHIVA, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: I called him down, %and when he came Last Line: In the violet clouds %that gather at dusk Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life WOMAN WITH THE BABY TO THE PHILOSOPHER, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I dread you, o portentous wise Last Line: Renowned - who put your toes inside your mouth Subject(s): Life Change Events WOMANLY SONG OF GOD, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: I am the woman dancing the world alive Last Line: Why cannot one of them be %woman singing? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion WOMEN'S TIME, FR. CASSANDRA, by FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Poem Source First Line: Yet I would spare no pang Last Line: The earlier it will bless Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights WONG OF THE WHITE SNOW; SENDING OFF ASSISTANT WU ON RTEURN TO CAPITAL, by TS'EN SHEN Poem Source First Line: The north wind rolls up the earth Last Line: Leaving only the marks in the snow %to show where your horse has passed Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Frontier And Pioneer Life WOODLANDS, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, I pray thee stay. Where hast Subject(s): Country Life WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are lighter than the cloud-foam Last Line: Echoes in god's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Language; Life; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary WORDS OF DEPARTURE, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: And you will hear in every passing century Last Line: Freed you from the world Subject(s): Life WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary WORDSWORTH NOTEBOOK: MOODS OF MY OWN MIND, by JEFFREY ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: In 1802 william wordsworth, living with his sister dorothy and Last Line: Coarsens my hand, and mary %makes the angel more terrible Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets; Religion; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like coral insects multitudinous Last Line: Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Work; Workers WORK, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I believed in days like today Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Joy; Delight WORK FOR FOOD, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Where highways %93 and 40 cross Last Line: Save - the wave Subject(s): Ranch Life WORK OF THE LIVING, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: While you're so ill, I should take Last Line: In your rose bed, your kitchen, %your days filled to overflowing. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What busy times the world sees now Last Line: Your way—you sing! Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers WORKING RANCH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: We envy you,' said my city friends Last Line: Another day like this has been %and, hell - I'll give 'em this one Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WORKS AND DAYS, SELS., by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pieria is just north of mt. Olumpus in northern greece Last Line: Work guiltless before the deathless ones, sorting out the birds and avoiding excesses Subject(s): Farm Life WORKS AND DAYS: NEIGHBOURS AND KINSFOLK, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call him who loves you to your feast Last Line: But kinsmen dawdle o'er their gear. Subject(s): Family Life; Neighbors; Relatives WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: THE SIGN OF THE PLEIADS, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the pleiads, children of atlas, arise Last Line: Or beg at another's door, and none shall heed. Variant Title(s): Advice To Farmers Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WHEN THE CRANE FLIES SOUTH, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark, when you hear aloft in the clouds of the sky Last Line: For the coming of grey-husked spring and the season of rain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware the month of lenaion - foul days Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter WORKWORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the street, an humble woman lives Last Line: My tasks, my heart, had much the lighter grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Work; Workers WORLD (1), by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: It was just a gas station. It was not spectacular carnage Last Line: Let's see the world. Are you coming with me. What's for dinner Subject(s): Earth; Life WORLD (1), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted so ably %to reassure you Last Line: For another morning %in the world Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Life WORLD DOESN'T END, SELS., by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was stolen by the gypsies. My parents stole me right back. Then the Last Line: Dish, the even more absurd vanity mirror, and the faintly sounding sil %ver bell Subject(s): Future Life WORLD'S A STAGE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: On with my coat and out into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Life Change Events WORLD'S LONE LOVER, by J. R. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: He was no stranger to salty tears, he Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry WORLDLY PLACE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well! Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WORLDS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known or seen all the worlds of this world Subject(s): Life WORTHY SUBJECTS, by RITA SIMS QUILLEN Poem Source First Line: A bee slicing into a zinnia splattering face, legs, thorax in a sweet suck Last Line: Your hand on my white skin finding the place where I end, we begin Subject(s): Life WRECK OF LATONA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She had just left the switch at chitamia Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WRECK OF THE OLD NINETY-SEVEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They gave him his orders at monroe, virginia Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WRECKED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the forest glades Last Line: Again are one! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life WRETCHED RAMBLING BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was a wretched rambling boy Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life WRING THE SWAN'S NECK, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Wring the swan's neck who with deceiving plumage Last Line: The secret book of the nocturnal still Subject(s): Life WRIT IN A BOOK OF WELSH VERSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where I was bred Last Line: Old wars, old hungers, and old tears! Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Wales; Relatives; Welshmen; Welshwomen WRITER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Last Line: I wish %what I wished you before, but harder Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters 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 WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined the atmosphere would be clear Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WRITING ON NAPKINS AT THE SUNSHINE CLUB; MACON, GEORGIA 1970, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rock-o-la plays country and western Last Line: Even the low belch of the brunette behind the flippers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; South (u.s.) WRITTEN AT PARIS. MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that william rules, or robe Last Line: And thy petitioner shall pray. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Paris, France; Dead, The WRITTEN AT SUNSET, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Sweet lovely ohio how sad 'tis to gaze Last Line: And like the sun setting we all fad away Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred. Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary. Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF R. O. CLARK, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Cut off in his manhood - cut down in his bloom Last Line: Only those whom death robs, can know this farewell Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio WRITTEN OVER A STUDY, by FRANCOIS MAYNARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tir'd with vain hopes, and with complaints as vain Last Line: Here learn to live; nor wish, nor fear to die. Subject(s): Life WRITTEN TO GAALDINE PRISON CAVES TO A.G.A., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy sun is near meridian height Last Line: This hell shall wring thy spirit too! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The YEAR AGO, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ah! Thou hast changed since first we met Last Line: She clings yet to - a year ago Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio YEARS GONE BY, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life YELLOW, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Hunched on the grey back of winter, Last Line: What would we do with a crown %of such yellow? Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love YELLOW BAG, by MARY ELLEN CSAMER Poem Source First Line: Something broken Last Line: Knowing the need for risks %has led you to this one Subject(s): Family Life; Quarrels YELLOW BEAK, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man owns a green parrot with a yellow beak Subject(s): Life; Parrots YELLOW COIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the only changes are Last Line: The only wall that holds my history. Subject(s): Change; Cities; Memory; Urban Life YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life YELLOW POPPIES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mortally impatient for the past to catch up to me Last Line: A way to make herself happy, for a time, out in the dark Subject(s): Family Life YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory YELLOWSTONE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Millions of buffalo curried her flanks Last Line: She's a wild old girl, let her looks not deceive you...%but we love her in spite of it all Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life YES HOLY BE THY RESTING PLACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life YES, IT WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source Last Line: Grandma, and it is wild and untrained Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers YESSIR MISTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yessir mister mystery dwells in dese dose dem Subject(s): Family Life; Language; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary YET A LITTLE WHILE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days are long before I die Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Peace; Seasons; Dead, The YET, LIFE, by ELLEN JANSON Poem Text First Line: Life, when I said I hated you, I lied Last Line: These nights, these sweet irrevocable years. Subject(s): Life YGGDRASIL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am the least leaf Last Line: Inconceivably %bigger than me Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality YIELDING TO THE PROPOSITIONS ALL LOVE IS CANNIBALISTIC, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm placed atop an oak table cross- Last Line: Of my envy know I wonder %how many tasted better than this Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Envy; Family Life YIN AND YANG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YIN AND YANG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YOGI INSIDE, by DOROTHY WALTERS Poem Source First Line: What she wants %is not words nor fastenings Last Line: She becomes a spreading tree of silence %that knows only itself Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life YONOSA HOUSE, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She stroked molten tones Last Line: Hear her chants in the thrush's song. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives YORK KIDNEY POTATOES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One farmer giles, an honest clown Last Line: "none but york kidneys does for mashing." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes; Agriculture; Farmers YOU, by CELESTIN PIERRE CAMBIAIRE Poem Source First Line: Do I love you? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life YOU, by ROSE FORTE Poem Text First Line: You came into my life and brought the sunshine Last Line: You took the brightness when you went away. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight YOU AND ME AND P.B. SHELLEY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life? Life is stepping down a step or sitting in a chair Last Line: Marked pull just like everybody else Subject(s): Life YOU ARE NEVER READY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: In four minutes you will be gone and I must tell you why Last Line: Get out of this fucking world %as fast as you can Subject(s): Independence; Life; Maturity; Self-love YOU ARE PART OF ME, by FRANK YERBY Poem Source First Line: You are part of me. I do not know Last Line: That part of you that is a part of me Subject(s): Life Change Events YOU ASK, by LISA QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: If I was lonely %as a little girl Last Line: Full of invisible tea Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers YOU CAN READ THE WORLD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And what if that's not enough? Subject(s): Language; Life YOU CAN'T SAY 'NO' TO DADDY, by NANCY DU PLESSIS Poem Source Subject(s): Family Life YOU CAN?ÇÖT WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOPES THERE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator. Feathers and a smeared Last Line: His rilke with a gentle smile Subject(s): City & Town Life YOU DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS ETERNAL? THERE', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her faint heart flowers, an anemone Subject(s): Future Life; Women YOU HUM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My parents sleep with a flashlight Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives YOU MIGHT SAY: THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by STEPHEN DUNNING Poem Source First Line: The dark bruise of the august storm touches down near blue earth, snaps Last Line: People here care what you say.' Subject(s): Biography; Life YOU STEP IN THE SAME RIVER ONCE ONLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bruised fingers of what might have been Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chance; Life; Nature; Time YOU TELL ME TO BE GAY, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: The golden bowl is broken.' Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio YOU TRIED TO TELL US, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trail of tears almost forgotten Last Line: We would not listen Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life YOU'LL GET YOURS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: The dead hourse has it all Subject(s): Human Rights; Life YOU'RE WELCOME AS THE FLOWERS IN MAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Last night I has a sweet, sweet dream Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The YOU: PART 18, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: P=h=I=l=a=d=e=l=p=h=I=a. Under the dogwood tree, Subject(s): Language Poetry; City & Town Life YOUNG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand doors ago Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives YOUNG DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying / such sweet things untasted Last Line: And god the temple. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The YOUNG FARM WOMAN ALONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What could I do with a man? Last Line: This hoe that with each use grows sharper Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Farm Life YOUNG LAND CULTIVATION DEPARTMENT TECHNICIAN'S RECITATIVE, by MIYAZAWA KENJI Poem Source First Line: Again separating myself Last Line: All my helpless caresses and boundless love Subject(s): Farm Life YOUR CATFISH FRIEND, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were to live my life Subject(s): Life; Catfish YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: As living arrows are sent forth Subject(s): Life Change Events YOUR MART AND MINE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: I wish I could sing of the cities Last Line: In shop, or in office, or wide-sloping hill. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Hearts; South Dakota YOUR NEXT MOVE, by PAUL DUNLAP Poem Source First Line: At the moment of the mind's sleepless static Last Line: Spread open, breathe in the air of the departed, %and plan your next move Subject(s): Life YOUR PROMISES, by MARY LACKEY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You would come, you said, you know Last Line: I trust in him - he can't deceive Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Ohio YOUR TURN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrop ode sweet licks Last Line: Make neurons dance in world muse impulse book Subject(s): Cities; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Urban Life YOUTH, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: The suddenness of life was mine Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze. Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth YOUTH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: High on the hills in the morning Last Line: Bow to the mandates of youth. Subject(s): Life; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will gain a fortune, the young man cried Last Line: "to bind the reef that breasts the storm!" Subject(s): Aging; Life; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes YUSSOUF, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger came one night to yussouf's tent Last Line: "thou art avenged, my first-born, sleep in peace!" Subject(s): Hospitality; Life ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares ZARZYSKI STOMACHS THE OXFORD SPECIAL WITH ZIMMER ..., by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Donning his bronc-stomper black hat, cock-eyed Last Line: These z-boys need 'em real awful bad Subject(s): Ranch Life; Restaurants ZEA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once their fruit is picked, Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ZEAL AND MEEKNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zeal without meekness, like a ship at sea Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ZERO, by ANDREW HINTON Poem Source First Line: By now I should know everything but everything Last Line: I coo & whistle, I pour milk. Everything comes Subject(s): Family Life ZINNIAS, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Stiff ladies in ruff and fardingale Last Line: Sooth, his grace the earl of liecester. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ZION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Last Line: Or the first cloud so terrible and still %that bears the coming harvest in its breast Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus ZWYCZAJ, by MARK ANDREW NOWAK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: With immersion, the field %researcher sees Last Line: Heightens sensitivity to social life %as process Subject(s): Food And Eating; Life; Poland [IF MAMA / COULD SEE], by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Relatives |
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