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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIFE CHANGE EVENTS Matches Found: 275 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 THE GIFT OF CHILDHOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Common heritage that endures from generation to generation Subject(s): Life Change Events 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LOVE YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In the love that makes us one Subject(s): Life Change Events 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 haven’t 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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