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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LONGING Matches Found: 325 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "GO, HEART, HURT WITH ADVERSITY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "go hert, hurt with adversite" Last Line: Til y se my lady agayne Subject(s): Longing A FAIR WORLD THOUGH A FALLEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that the world is fair, in spite Last Line: Thy cross cruciferous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Longing; Comfort A FORGOTTEN TUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frail hand hovering sets the keys astir Last Line: Beyond the window where the garden blows? Subject(s): Longing; Music & Musicians A HEAVEN, by MARGARET MARY LEE Poem Text First Line: And this I would call heaven Last Line: If you were only there. Subject(s): Longing A LONGING FOR THE WOODS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to be away, to be away Last Line: I long for the woodland cool and sweet. Subject(s): Forests; Longing; Woods A LOVER'S IDLE FEAR, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: You asked me to return at eight Last Line: You promised me. Subject(s): Fear; Longing; Love; Waiting A MESSAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little white dove fluttered close to my pane Last Line: "I whispered my secret that non else might ken, / and it eagerly bore it along" Subject(s): Longing;love;secrets A OUTRANCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Say, why should I sing of an angel of light Last Line: Like an ardent red rose in a tropical breeze! Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Male-female Relations A ROUNDEAU FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH Poem Text First Line: My valentine I prithee be Last Line: My valentine! Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde Subject(s): Longing; Love A SIGH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, I sat within the boat Last Line: Shrill did the sea-mew cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Absence Of; Longing A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A TRUANT LOVER, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above a lily's chalice flashed Last Line: Her fickle love will ne'er return. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of ABOARD! ABOARD!, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how the little towns flare in passing Subject(s): Railroads; Longing; Railways; Trains ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The mock-bird sings in the dusky morn Last Line: And know love broods in your home-nest too. Subject(s): Birds; Longing; Love; Mockingbirds ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Last Line: As I glance through a few thin pages and switch off the light Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia AFTER OUR PARTING, by HU WENRU Poem Source First Line: After we part, at the river's mouth, the night rain feels cold Last Line: Why do I feel your coach's wheels daily grinding my entrails? Subject(s): Longing ALL DAY THE LIGHT IS CLEAR, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I wished without mercy Subject(s): Longing ALL THAT'S LEFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's riddled with it,' she said Last Line: Is the bit of elbow-grease in bed'. Subject(s): Longing; Sickness ALLA BREVE LOVING, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three people drinking out of the bottle Last Line: Ancient terrapin %at the approach of the wheel Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 6. THE BARREL-ORGAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enigmatical, tremulous Last Line: The voice of my heart is crying in you. Subject(s): Longing; Organs (musical Instruments) AN ILLUSION, by MARGHERITA GARDNER FETTER Poem Text First Line: If I could have seen you depart Last Line: Our souls thrilled as they smiled to meet. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love; Separation; Isolation 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 APPEAL, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am very weary Last Line: Thou wouldst not thus delay! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Longing AT A HALL-ROOM WINDOW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: She lives in the square below me there Last Line: But moves in a circle above me. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Longing; Love AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AT THY GRAVE, by JOHN FULLERTON Poem Text First Line: At thy grass-grown grave I kneel Last Line: Where and when now will we meet? Subject(s): Death; Longing; Dead, The AURORA, by SONIA GOMEZ Poem Source First Line: Here's the 99th face of desire Last Line: Timid gun to hold Subject(s): Longing BALLADE: 11, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though this the port and I thy servant true Last Line: Forget me not, en vogant la galere. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Longing BALLADE: 13, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knot which first my heart did strain Last Line: Hath last too long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Longing BALLADE: 4, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For want I will in woe I plain Last Line: Which lacketh will to change his place. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Longing BALLADE: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such hap as I am happed in Last Line: Such hap as I. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Longing 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 BEFORE A WINDOW, by HELEN BLODGETT ERWIN Poem Text First Line: Oh, little boy who gazes through the glass Last Line: "I only say, ""you know, they soon would break." Subject(s): Happiness; Longing; Windows; Joy; Delight BEI TAI-HE BEACH, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I felt like a child of eight that night Last Line: The anchorage of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing BIOLUMINESCENCE: 3. LUMEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vulnerable / we would all be if longing Subject(s): Desire; Fireflies; Longing; Glowworms BLACK SEA, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One clear night while the others slept, I climbed Subject(s): Longing BLINDNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our true hearts are forever lonely Last Line: Meet only when pain touches pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness BROTHER GENE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: He differed from the others; they were kind Last Line: And how we miss him since he went away. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Longing; Nostalgia; Half-brothers; Dead, The BY THE CAMP FIRE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide Last Line: Some light of knowledge would be shed, and some few riddles would be read. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Religion BYGONES, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or ever a lick of art was done Last Line: And you were a sky-blue square. Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Longing; Dead, The CALLING ON A TAOIST PRIEST IN TAI-T'IEN MOUNTAIN ..., by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog barks amid the sound of water Last Line: Saddened, I lean against the pines Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Longing CAPTIVE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes, the summer dies Last Line: One rapture of the wilderness! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Longing; Summer; Dead, The CARAVAN OF LONGING, by IWAN GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our far-stretching caravan of longing Last Line: To overwhelm us, we would cry with more terrible thirst! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Longing CENTRIPETAL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This time if there is time if time Last Line: Remains. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love - Loss Of; New Mexico; Separation; Isolation CHAMBER THOUGHTS: 3, by XU GAN Poem Source First Line: Clouds go drifting in billowing floods Last Line: Like flowing waters I long for you - %there is never a time that they end Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Clouds; Longing; Mirrors CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHINESE POET AMONG BARBARIANS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain drives, drives endlessly Last Line: Or share with me a single human thought. Subject(s): Longing; Rain CIVILIZATION, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Ambition CLOSE BY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness Last Line: Twas—once so near at hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Regret COLONIAL SET, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: That wolf, shivering by the palisade Last Line: Attain a brittle silence. Subject(s): Colonialism; French & Indian Wars; Longing COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are driving to the airport Last Line: To your curving lips and your %ivory thighs Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love; Reunions COMING BACK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went through the ancient town Last Line: Who knew me not and passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Meeting Subject(s): Homecoming; Longing; Loss; Towns; Youth DAY AND NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In warsaw in poland Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Longing; Separation; Isolation DAY DAWN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul Last Line: The night is always mine without the morning of your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Desire; Longing DAY DREAMS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gazing through her chamber window Last Line: While I wondered what she meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Reflection' Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace; Soul DEEP AND BOUNDLESS, THE LONG AUTUMN NIGHT, by TS'AO P'I+(1) Poem Source Last Line: A broken spirit knows only torment! Subject(s): Longing DEEP LONGING, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May's greeting, the first catkins Last Line: For my love to wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Longing DESIRE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thee a moment! Then what dreams have play! Last Line: Ah, with what longing once again I turn! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Longing DIARY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've heard and heard, and finally believe Last Line: Duty? - who really needs it? Trust your love Subject(s): Diaries; Longing DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DROUGHT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day in, day out, dust devils dance Last Line: Peace, and you in my arms again! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Drought; Longing; Love DUINO ELEGIES: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown Last Line: And warning, inapprehensible Subject(s): Longing; Religion EASING MY HEART, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: Ill-fated, I carried wine Last Line: Only a drifting name Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Longing EBB-TIDE, by BESS GILLESPIE CARTER Poem Text First Line: I held you in my arms Last Line: That vivid moment of anticipation! Subject(s): Love; Kisses; Longing EDEN RETOLD: 1. THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Longing; Anger; God; Eve EDGED TOOLS, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, helen, quite two years have flown Last Line: And why his spirit will not rest. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of EIGHT O'CLOCK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supper comes at five o'clock, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Longing EIN TRAUMBILD, by C. W. YEOMANS Poem Text First Line: A student sat in his room alone Last Line: Longs for the fragrance of that sweet flower. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness EXCHANGES (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Longing for you, my love, but not knowing Subject(s): Longing EXMOOR VERSES: 1. VASHTI'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the rim of the moor Last Line: O my heart, where lies that land? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Ignorance; Longing; Dullness; Stupdity EXPLORATIONS (4), by GEORGE PARKS HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: O how my heart longs Last Line: For new caledonia! Subject(s): Longing; New Caledonia F. DE SAMARA TO A.G.A., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light up thy halls! 'tis closing day Last Line: Life bows to my control, but, love I cannot kill! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Longing FARMS AT WEI RIVER, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Slanting rays shine on the hamlet Last Line: And wistfully hum 'o to go back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Longing FORCED BRIDAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw her on the bridal night Last Line: Her temples chafe - but all too late-- %the wound's a brokenheart! Subject(s): Longing; Marriage FRAGMENT, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: I keep wondering why I see you Last Line: And there is no meaning in any song— Subject(s): Lament; Longing; Nostalgia; Relationships FRINGES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy sunlit hours come and go Last Line: Thy gentle heart is all I ask. Subject(s): Hearts; Longing FROGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm broke, and it rained, Subject(s): Frogs; Longing; Conversation GEO-BESTIARY: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was hoping to travel the world Last Line: Myself of this last land mine, the unlived life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing GETTING TOGETHER (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love your head with waving hair Last Line: I long for you with burning heart Subject(s): Longing GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday morning I chanced to drink a cup or two, and from the Last Line: Heart had fallen into the snare of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The east wind at the dawn of day brought a perfume from the Last Line: The sufi manner. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cupbearer! Bring the joy of youth; bring cup after cup of red Last Line: Give cup after cup hafiz; pour, whether it be sin or sanctity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is the veil behind which is hidden his love; his eye is Last Line: Benevolence! Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If that beauty of shiraz would take my heart in hand, I would Last Line: Hath shed upon thy poetry the harmony of the pleiades. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZALS: 46, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she buzzed in my ear 'I love you' and I dug at Last Line: Us three months. He was a fellow creature and I loved him. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Love GODS ON THE MAGPIE BRIDGE, by QIN GUAN Poem Source First Line: Fine wisps of cloud sport their craft Last Line: It does not need to be done %every night and every morning at dawn Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Night GOING AWAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Oh, josephine gray, are you going away? Last Line: Of a joy that shall never forsake us! Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Parting GOING OUT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hold your hands up to the light Last Line: We stand in it like a room. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Hunger; Longing 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 HARDEST IT IS, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Your touch is a torch Last Line: Hardest it is to touch yet have and hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Longing; Pleasure; Touch (sense) HAUNTED, by CLARA MARIE KEENAN Poem Text First Line: Your hair I saw on another's head Last Line: Or else come back to me! Subject(s): Longing 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 HIDDEN, by S. T. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: Love is like arbutus blooming Last Line: It is there. Subject(s): Longing; Love HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy HUNTER'S SONG AT NIGHTFALL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My rifle cocked, in savage calm Last Line: Were spellbound on the moon Subject(s): Longing I WAITED ALL NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Birds tormented me Subject(s): Dreams; Longing I WOULD I COULD DANCE, by HELEN M. BROUGH Poem Text Last Line: Fore your laughing eye. Subject(s): Ambition; Dancing & Dancers; Longing ICE STORM, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the hemlocks and broad-leafed evergreens Last Line: Extreme, which I intuit, but can't quite name. Subject(s): Longing; Beauty IF I MAY HAVE IT WHEN IT'S DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outvisions paradise! Subject(s): Longing; Imagination; Death; Love – Loss Of IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That will not state—its sting Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Autumn IN HOOD OF BLUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in hood of blue's soft, warm embrace" Last Line: "and feel I'm drawn, -towards charming grace, / in hood of blue" Subject(s): Flirtation;longing IN RESPONSE TO LU ZHI, by ZHULIAN XIV Poem Source First Line: Mountains beyond number Last Line: Hating that I cannot follow that great river to the east Subject(s): Longing; Lu Zhi (13th Century) IN SPAIN, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay Last Line: If that for weight the body fail, this soul shall to her flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 98;canzone: 3 Subject(s): Longing; Spain IN TEHACHAPI, by DAVID STARR JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold is the wind upon the mountain side Last Line: Thy face, teháchapi! Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Tehachapi, California; Male-female Relations IN TENEBRIS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All within is warm Last Line: Let the light fall on my face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Light; Longing; Waiting IN THE MORNING, by ERNST STADLER Poem Text First Line: Your body's silhouette stands darkly in the morning Last Line: Fall asleep. Subject(s): Longing; Morning INSPIRATION, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: Content and peace urge not to flights above Last Line: Born of the fever of a soul on fire. Subject(s): Desire; Longing IS IT JUST THE WIND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But I only become more restless Subject(s): Longing; Waiting ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT IS TOO COLD TO CHANGE THE SHEETS, by KRISTINE DUGAS Poem Source First Line: Hour after hour I lie listening Last Line: Opening now Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Loss Of JOURNEYS, by KATHLEEN REA BRAID Poem Text First Line: A wedge of wild geese, poised in soaring gleams Last Line: Then how lonely and long the journey back. Subject(s): Geese; Longing KITTY'S SUMMERING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen e'er a sign of my kitty? Last Line: On the south side of washington square. Subject(s): Longing; New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LASS A-LAUNDERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rose and went a-roving, mother Last Line: Seen him faring on the foam? Subject(s): Longing LAY OF THE DESERTED INFLUENZAED, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Doe, doe! Last Line: By beautiful! By owd!! Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation 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 TO YESENIN: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of water. The most involved play. She wonders if she Last Line: It's over. But wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) 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 LONGING, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and then Last Line: The hopeless longing of the day. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hills slope down to the valley, the streams run down to the sea Last Line: And my heart, my heart, o far one! Sets and strains towards thee. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: I long for the peace of the desert Last Line: And the lull of a silent sea. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Longing; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING, by CYRINTHIA J. CLAYTON Poem Text First Line: I need you dear, you know I do Last Line: My dear, is loyal, firm, and true. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Relationships LONGING, by LEWIS A. CORN Poem Text First Line: There's a longing in my heart I can not still Last Line: And my heart will rest for there will be peace. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: I long to feel thy little arm's embrace Last Line: Nay, heaven's bliss alone can end it now. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stirs in my heart so? Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never longed and loved Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LONGING, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: See'st thou the ivy, how it clings and catches Last Line: Shelter themselves within the downy nest Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace LONGING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou beholdest in thy vision Last Line: And a bridge across procure me? Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by FANNIE M. KUHL Poem Text First Line: If I had the wings of the morning Last Line: On that hilltop far away. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look westward o'er the steaming rain-washed slopes Last Line: Desires and yearnings that may find no rest. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the myriad moods of mind Last Line: Howe'er we fail in action. Subject(s): Longing LONGING, by BLANCHE KENDALL MCKEY Poem Text First Line: And it will bring you back Last Line: To hear his singing! Subject(s): Longing; Spring LONGING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness Last Line: And then, together, home. Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness LONGING, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: The day is done and over the mountainside leaping Last Line: I'll love and protect thee, darling wife. Subject(s): Longing LONGING IS LIKE THE SEED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What constancy must be achieved %before it see the sun Variant Title(s): Poem: 1255; Poem: 129 Subject(s): Longing LONGINGS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the beaufiful bodies of those who died before they had Last Line: A night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Longing LONGINGS, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: To dance - Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Longing LONGINGS, by A. DE BERNARDI JR. Poem Text First Line: Oh, the quakers are a - turning, and my weary heart is yearning Last Line: Fall has flung his vivid paintbrush with a free and flowing hand! Subject(s): Autumn; Longing; Seasons; Fall LONGINGS, by GENNET MAXON EMERY Poem Source First Line: O still-born words and feeble tongue Last Line: Complete and perfect in thy arms %as I am one with thee Subject(s): Longing LONGINGS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I long for some intenser life Subject(s): Longing LOVE LOST, by STEVEN A. SEAGER Poem Source First Line: The gentle kiss of my one, true love Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit at my desk Last Line: And will not stop Subject(s): Longing; Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I %wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Arm is your sweet flesh %pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing LOVE SONG OF THE OMAHAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fades the star of morning Last Line: Hear thy lover's cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Longing; Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LOVERS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think perhaps my heart would be less sore Last Line: If I need not look on lovers any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Complaints; Love - Unrequited LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean LUCKY-STONE, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Lucky woman, she has missed Last Line: For all the ills she never knew? Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Love LUKE HAVERGAL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the western gate, luke havergal Last Line: Luke havergal. Variant Title(s): Luke Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Longing; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy LYRIC AFTERWARDS, by TOM PAULIN Poem Source First Line: There was a taut dryness all that summer Last Line: Now in the grace of the world and always Subject(s): Erotic Love; Longing; Love LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 6. THE HILL WRAITH, by CH'U YUAN Poem Source First Line: It seemed there was someone in the cleft of the hills Last Line: I long for the lady, fruitless torment I find Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Longing MARVELLOUS GRASS, by NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL Poem Source First Line: When you were a holy priest Last Line: As healthy as I was when young Subject(s): Longing MAY'S LOVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love all, you say Last Line: Only me--fair may! Subject(s): Beauty; Longing MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing; Words; Vocabulary MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Last Line: Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, %saying blacberry, blackberry, blackbrry Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing MENG JIANGNAN: DREAM OF THE SOUTH: THINKING OF SOMEONE, by LIU SHIH Poem Source First Line: He is gone Last Line: How I yearn for his love Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love MENONA GIVES ME VERTIGO, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Boulders along the canal form a bucktooth shore Last Line: But rarely win love back Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of MIDNIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dank earth reeks with three days' rain Last Line: O love's unutterable stings! Subject(s): Youth; Longing; Grief MISS DIPLOMACY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I'm writing to you, dear, to-day Last Line: "would one of those ""back numbers"" do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Letters; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Longing; Love - Erotic; Butterflies; Migration MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Longing 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 MORTALITIES MEMORANDUM, WITH A DREAME PREFIXED, SELS., by RACHEL SPEGHT Poem Source First Line: My griefe, quoth I is called ignorance Last Line: The profit may and will the paines requite Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ignorance; Longing; Wisdom MOST PATHETIC THING I DO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Goliah - so would you Variant Title(s): Poem: 1290; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Longing MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone Last Line: Of all that happened there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness MUSIC OF SHOUYANG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The range of eight lords is lovely Last Line: Surely you will return, but in how many years Subject(s): Longing MY BONNY KATE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultry sun with angry eye Last Line: My bonny kate! Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Past MY HOME, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: How far is it Last Line: To which I shall return in the end Subject(s): Home; Longing; Prisons And Prisoners NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Keep on going, on and on Last Line: Let it go now, say no more! %just eat well and take care Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Travel NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Faraway lies that star, the oxherd Last Line: But across that bright and brimming stream, %she gazes with longing and cannot speak Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Night; Solitude NINETEEN POEM IN ANCIENT STYLE: 005, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Distant and faint the herd-boy star Last Line: Longingly, they look but cannot speak Subject(s): Longing NOSTALGIA, by MYRTLE HILL ERDMANN Poem Text First Line: O my heart is longing, longing Last Line: Come, my children, come, come home. Subject(s): Childlessness; Longing; Nostalgia NOW THE BIRDS ARE LEAVING, by BERNART DE VENTADORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strange new tidings of me Last Line: Your hostage while I'm here Alternate Author Name(s): Bernard De Ventadour Subject(s): Death; Despair; Longing ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you advance in years you long Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The ON THE SLOPE OF HUA MOUNTAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O flowery mountain slopes Last Line: So we could see each other %as you pass by Subject(s): Longing ON THE THRESHOLD, by LE ROY J. N. BOYD Poem Text First Line: When come the thoughts of things that might have Last Line: For I have only a poor home. Subject(s): Divorce; Longing; Regret ORGAN SONGS: LONGING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is full of inarticulate pain Last Line: Thou art my solitude, my mountain-calm! Subject(s): Christianity; God; Longing; Love OVER, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: It is over, the ceaseless search is over Last Line: Nothing to lose when what is lost was all. Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Loss; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness PARTING, by SARA BERKELEY Poem Source First Line: You lower my emotions, sealed in their casket Last Line: And we, a double splash of oars into the still air Subject(s): Longing PARTING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The moon elves dance upon the lake Last Line: Across the sea! Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Parting PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I many times thought peace had come Last Line: Before the harbor lie. Variant Title(s): Poem: 739 Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Longing; Peace QUANTUM LONGING, by STANLEY MASON Poem Source First Line: As when you find the place Last Line: But cannot see your face Subject(s): Longing QUATRAINS, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Sad that I should lose my crown Last Line: —quests into the blue Subject(s): Change; Longing; Love - Loss Of RECOMPENSE, by HAZEL CANNON BRINSON Poem Text First Line: Though we are many miles apart Last Line: And more I cannot say. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness RENCONTRE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling across the mer de glace Last Line: But not for those who hate. Subject(s): Love; Hate; Longing RENUNCIATION, by PADRAIC PEARSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naked I saw thee Last Line: To the deed that I see %and the death I shall die Alternate Author Name(s): Pearse, P. H.; Pearse, Patrick Henry Subject(s): Longing RESIDUE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of the rain today Last Line: That friend alone has stirred. Subject(s): Friendship; Longing; Nature; Nostalgia RESTRAINT, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: For you I dare not speak the praises Last Line: That you are come! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Praise RETURN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's warm against the slats of the granary Last Line: And want something better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Longing; Nature; Spring REVELATION, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Your love is darkening my star Subject(s): Longing ROMANCE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Romance with firm and eager tread Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Longing RONDEAU: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, burning sighs, unto the frozen heart Last Line: Go, burning sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 20;the Lover Sendeth Sighs To Move His Suit Subject(s): Longing ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wild rose of my heart Last Line: Ròseen-dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation ROSETTE, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Yes! I know you're very fair Last Line: As I used to love rosette! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Love; Women SEA-SICKNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The grey afternoon clouds Last Line: For you are at least firm land Subject(s): Longing; Seasickness SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry sunset sky Last Line: Thy long tresses fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SENT TO A TRAVELER, by BAO LINGHUI Poem Source First Line: The cassia has put forth several twigs Last Line: The spring wind will just mock me Subject(s): Longing SENT TO MY FOURTH SON, SHAO-WU, by LIANG TE-SHENG Poem Source First Line: You are far away, blocked by passages and mountains Last Line: Amidst the sound of firecrackers, another year is gone Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Time SEPARATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee whene'er the sun is glowing Last Line: Oh, wert thou here! Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love; Separation; Isolation SESTINA AT 3 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the imperfect dark Subject(s): Night; Insomnia; Longing; Bedtime; Sleeplessness SEVEN POEMS OF LAMENT: 002, by WANG TS'AN Poem Source First Line: The land of the ching tribes is not my home Last Line: And melancholy thoughts are strong and hard to bear! Subject(s): Longing SHALL THEN ANOTHER, by KENNETH MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: Shall then another do what I have done Last Line: But, with a smile as happy as a child's, %blew out the golden light Subject(s): Longing SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: Itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Absence; Longing SHELBURNE FARMS COACHYARD, SWALLOWS, SCHUBERT, by ROBERT HAHN Poem Source First Line: That you long for someone else, for a figure more intense Last Line: The world for the pleasure of throwing it all away Subject(s): Change; Longing SICKBED #27, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door Last Line: The truth of a whole life as a gemmed garland %I see on the breast of that blue Subject(s): Longing; Morning; Sky SIMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A man will drink himself to death Last Line: Stroll in Subject(s): Devil; Drinks And Drinking; Hell; Longing; Sleep SINCE YOU HAVE GONE AWAY, by CHEN SHU-BAO Poem Source Last Line: That even a moment does not turn back Subject(s): Longing SINCE YOU HAVE GONE AWAY, by WANG RONG Poem Source Last Line: At midnight burning down uselessly Subject(s): Longing SINCE YOU HAVE GONE AWAY, by YAN SHI-BO Poem Source Last Line: Turbulent sifting, no edge or end Subject(s): Longing SINGLES' CLUB, by VERA HENKEL Poem Source First Line: Now I'm all alone again Last Line: Safety in suitable arms others get nothing and return to their %companions Subject(s): Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Single People; Solitude SKIN TRADE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And then I said, that's what it means Subject(s): Rivers; Longing; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks SLEEPWALKER'S BALLAD, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Green it's your green I love Last Line: The horse above on the mountain Subject(s): Longing SO SWEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know not who the maid may be Last Line: And life will be so sad and yet / so sweet Subject(s): Flirtation;longing SONG, by IAN CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes to mine, eilidh Last Line: A falling star! Alternate Author Name(s): Mor, Ian Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in my heart: oh, heart of me, heart of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG OF CHANG-KAN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my hair just began to cover my forehead, Last Line: Ignore the long distance, even to long wind sands Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Youth SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 15, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort thyself, my woful heart Last Line: Sigh there thy last, and therewith break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Longing SONG: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sufficed not, madam, that you did tear Last Line: Feel as I do. This shalt thou gain thereby. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Longing SONG: 69, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence absenting causeth me to complain Last Line: Now welcome, death. I am ready to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation SONG: EIN FICHTENBAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fir tree standeth lonely Last Line: In burning wastes of sand. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Solitude; Loneliness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 44, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wait for me, cherrychild, when the blue dusk Last Line: Child, cherrychild. Subject(s): Longing SONNET, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To work away in art's traditional measure Last Line: Sonnets I might, just maybe, patch with glue Subject(s): Longing SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 12, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was I never yet of your love grieved Last Line: And ye yourself the cause thereof hath been. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 9 Subject(s): Longing SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: LOVE AND TIME, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is sick with longing, tho' I feed Last Line: By the same light of love that makes them bright! Subject(s): Longing SORROW IN THE SPRING CHAMBER, by CHENG CHANGWEN Poem Source First Line: Field paths interweave in the floating fragrance, willow floss like threads Last Line: Ten years of longing, but no chance to see him Subject(s): Longing SPIRITUAL CANTICLE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you hidden away? Last Line: The horsemen sighted %vistas of shining water and alighted Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Longing SPRING LONGINGS, by WANG SENG-JU Poem Source First Line: The snows are over, branches turn green Last Line: That leads me to write these songs of love Alternate Author Name(s): Seng-ju; Wang Seng-ru Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Spring SPRING PASSION, by XU ZAI-SI Poem Source First Line: I had never felt longing all my life Last Line: And the moon had grown %half bright Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Longing; Passion SUMMER, by ADOLF VON HATZFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I broke through to you, beloved, in the grassy plains Last Line: The raging storm, beloved, in you, the night. Subject(s): Longing; Summer SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 3. APPASSIONATO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a distant flute Last Line: Filled with thy mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Flutes; Longing; Nightmares SWEPT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we say I Last Line: Swept away to / gone Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness SYMBOLISM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods Last Line: And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longing; Love; Mortality; Dead, The; Paradise THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My johnny is left me and gone to the sea Last Line: We are all born to troubles, I must that endure. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Parents; Parenthood THE BACHELOR'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM D. LATTO Poem Text First Line: When cauld winter ruffles the leaves frae the tree Last Line: O wha can be happy when livin' alane! Subject(s): Longing THE BEGGAR, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar through the world so wide Last Line: Shall rise a welcome guest. Subject(s): Longing; Marriage; Solitude; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen Last Line: To her twa een sae bonnie blue. Subject(s): Charm; Longing THE CALL, by AGATHA COLE Poem Text First Line: O, the winding road is calling! Last Line: At the bend -- I may find love. Subject(s): Longing THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DEATH-DIRGE FOR CATHAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wild hills I am hearing a voice, o cathal! Last Line: O where is cathal mac art, that has tears to water my stillness? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Longing; Swords; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ELUSIVE SOMETHING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it in some crack in the pavement Subject(s): Longing THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE FAT MAN YEARNS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Though I've had my share of the pleasure Last Line: Saturday market day! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Longing; Obesity; Time THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Text First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans Last Line: Until it melts. Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy THE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Since you I loved are lost Last Line: And the cocks both white and red. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Longing; Loss; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE GRASS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It all hangs now on a blade of grass Subject(s): Grass; Longing THE GREY MORNINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey mornings I well remember Last Line: Would my feet might follow and find you! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gray (color); Longing; Memory; Morning; Grey (color) THE ICY ONE, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: I longed to be a lover Last Line: I have been raped by the icy one. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Sex 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 IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the piper playing Last Line: The things you let me know. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit at my desk Subject(s): Longing; Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I / wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing THE LOVE-CHANT OF CORMAC CONLINGAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the swan that is whiter, with breast Last Line: Eilidh, eilidh, o-rì, eilidh, eilidh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations THE MAID'S THOUGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why listen, even the water is sobbing for something Last Line: To make that burning flower Subject(s): Longing 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 OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean 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 PIMPERNEL, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks beside the silent shore- Last Line: Forgotten, is the pimpernel. Subject(s): Flowers; Longing; Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 65, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A group of girls play in fading light Last Line: White temples and a trembling heart Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Games; Girls; Longing; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POET TO HIS BELOVED, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night when I awoke, I lay naked, and my heart had Last Line: By morning red dew lay on the meadow. Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund Subject(s): Longing THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE RETURN, by LUCIA STEVENS DE MOTTE Poem Text First Line: Now you are gone Last Line: My hushed heart waits for you. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Spring; Separation; Isolation 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 SOUND OF ONE FORK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof Subject(s): Aging; Loneliness; Women; Neigbors; Longing THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation THE TIME WILL COME, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The time will come, when thou and I Last Line: The time will come. Subject(s): Hope; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Optimism THE TRYSTING-PLACE, by M. E. H. EVERETTE Poem Text First Line: The winds blow up through the blooming vale Last Line: Forgotten and left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Nature Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss." Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WOMEN WITH FABLED HAIR, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the life to come I unravel and let down Last Line: Dense longing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): The Woman With Fabled Hair Subject(s): Hair; Longing THE WORLD IS A MIGHTY OGRE, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could love her with a love so warm Last Line: Have mercy on a humble bard, o lord! Subject(s): African Americans; Longing; Negroes; American Blacks THEY TELL ME OF A PLACE, by FLORENCE HARRIS HOOKE Poem Text First Line: They tell me of a place where lovers pine Last Line: All loveliness made memorable by you. Subject(s): Longing; Loss; Memory THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Last Line: Since I have heard your voice Subject(s): Absence; Longing THINKING OF HER BESIDE THE SEA (1), by ILANKO ATIKAL Poem Source First Line: These breaking waves, this beach, these shining sands Last Line: All these have brought distress to me Subject(s): Longing THIS, by PETRONELLA HELEN URASKY CHAPP Poem Text First Line: This singing in my breast Last Line: I shall see you tomorrow. Subject(s): Longing THIS DECEMBER, by MOLLY INGER Poem Text First Line: December - and a few dead leaves on trees Last Line: Just yearning -- ever yearning. Subject(s): December; Longing THIS MORNING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter without knocking, hard-working ant. Subject(s): Ants; Longing THREE NIGHT SONGS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He waits to happen with the clear Last Line: So bright and clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime TICKET, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: He hasn't got a ticket Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing TO A CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I thee remember Last Line: "thy ""buon natale"" in my ear." Subject(s): Holidays; Longing; Memory; New Year TO HATTIE, by MARION L. CLARKE Poem Source First Line: How I long for your coming Subject(s): Longing TO HIS WIFE (1), by QIN JIA Poem Source First Line: Liken man's life to morning dew Last Line: Sorrow comes like tracing a ring - %the heart is no mat to be rolled away Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Longing; Love - Marital TO MILLICENT ABROAD, by T. P. SANBORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to us, dear little lady disdain Last Line: Ah, won't you come back to me? Millicent, do! Alternate Author Name(s): Sanborn, Thomas Parker Subject(s): Longing; Love TO MY DOG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear! When I leave you Last Line: As now you pull my sleeve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Variant Title(s): Abandonment Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Longing TO MY LITTLE SON, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot lose the thought of you Last Line: With you so far away. Subject(s): Longing; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO PENELOPE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing impossible as this one time Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Homecoming; Separation; Isolation TO THE FAIR UNKNOWN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To the fair unknown! These lines I dedicate Last Line: To the fairest of the fair who's still unknown. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Women 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 TRANSPORT [N (1611) 1:AN ACT OR PROCESS OF TRANSPORTING 2:A STRONG, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: I keep looking for an animal who could be you looking for flash of fox or Last Line: Years old scientists read our history: this is ecstasy: you magnified to the %size of a finger bone Subject(s): Animals; Longing TRIOLET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The days pass by and still I wait Last Line: With all my love for you unspoken. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Unrequited; Waiting TRIOLET: THE PAST, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh for an hour of the past instead Last Line: To meet thee in to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Past TRISTAN AND ISEULT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tristan and iseult had nothing Last Line: Descending to kiss my wrists. Subject(s): Hate; Longing; Love TRUE LOVE'S TIME OF DAY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When shall I find you, sweetheart Last Line: And you'll kiss me without reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Longing; Love TUNE: RIPPLES SIFTING SAND, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can the tide of the river be compared to your love? Last Line: Once he has boarded a boat, there is no date of his return? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Longing TWENTY-ONE: THE OLDER MAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Could I be twenty-one again- Last Line: Could I be twenty-one again! Subject(s): Longing; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; First World War TWILIGHT AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the outer edge of the world Last Line: And overflow my soul. Subject(s): Longing TWILIGHT NIGHT: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met hand to hand Last Line: So long ago, as I remember yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Longing TWILIGHT NIGHT: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where my heart is (wherever that may be) Last Line: Again to-day I watch the accustomed way. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Longing 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 UNE PETITE CHANSON DE LAMENTATION A MA MERE, by BELLE DE COEUR Poem Text First Line: Give me my youth, and let me play Last Line: To find a new day and you. Subject(s): Children; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Past; Childhood VILLON TO HIS MISTRESS: A.D. 1456, by F. B. W. Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, in thee my hopes behold Last Line: Sweetheart, in thee. Subject(s): Admiration; Hope; Longing; Love; Optimism VIOLIN SONGS: PICTURE SONGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale green sky is gleaming Last Line: Still it rises again! Subject(s): Death; Horseback Riding; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean WATCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The child watching the woman watching the man Last Line: Is watched by a stranger, familiar %and unknown. Subject(s): Children; Longing WATCHFUL WAITING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Nothing to do but sit around-- Last Line: Muster their clans in the south! Subject(s): Baseball; Longing; Sports; Waiting; Winter WE WHO WERE EXECUTED, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: We who were murdered in the darkest lanes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WE WHO WERE EXECUTED, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses Last Line: It's because of them that we went out to make the world our own, %we who were murdered in the darkes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Longing; Revolutions WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?" Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!" Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation 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 WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields? Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians WHY?, by C. H. PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: O lady fair! O lady fair! Last Line: Means but this: I love thee best. Subject(s): Flirtation; Longing WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie charlie's now awa Last Line: But aye to me he sings ae sang, %will ye no come back again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Loyalty; Stuart, Charles Edward (young Pretender) WINTER LONGING, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: In the naked tree an enromous crow Last Line: Are there no tadpoles anywhere %wriggling, searching for green coral? Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing WINTER NIGHT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bed is so empty that I keep on waking up Last Line: Oh that those were waves which could carry me back to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Winter WISTERIA, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first purple wisteria Subject(s): Longing; Wisteria WISTERIA, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first purple wisteria Subject(s): Longing; Wisteria WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The years upon you lightly lie Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations ZI-YE SONGS: 23, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who can feel longing and not sing out? Last Line: So upset that I can't help thinking of you Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing |
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