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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOARD SCHOOL PASTORAL, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone I stay; for I am lame
Last Line: Where ella passes.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students


A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 20, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pennycandystore beyond the el
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


A LOVE GAME, by W. B. ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas after a game of tennis
Last Line: Our lips met over the net.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


A LOVE-LETTER TO FOLLY, by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Folly, my dear, the more I see of you
Last Line: And take up folly, in a serious way.
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Beginnings


A LOVE-MESSAGE, by LILLIAN CORBETT BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the day I meet thee face to face
Last Line: And pause in hushed and silent ecstasy.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LOVE-SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O to think, o to think as I see her stand there
Last Line: Being lord of her life and her heart and her love!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. LOVE'S OUTSET, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one would stand who saw a sudden light
Last Line: And see no farther than my lady's eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert
Subject(s): Diaries; Love - Beginnings


A MEMORY OF LOVE, by MAX MORINAGA    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is only a memory
Last Line: How tormenting they can be!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


A MOMENT, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds had made a crimson crown
Last Line: As if it had not been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou
Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity!
Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


A RECOLLECTION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I well remember in my youthful day
Last Line: Veil'd, as we met, her blushing cheeks with gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory; Youth


A SPINSTER'S STINT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three!
Last Line: And stop the bands, and stop the bands!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spinsters; Old Maids


A STOLEN KISS, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes
Last Line: And twenty hundred thousand more for loan.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on
Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares


AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing
Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!"
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents
Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime


AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE DANCE, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robin is a lovely lad
Last Line: March around and make a stand.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Youth


AMBER! AMBER!, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your friendliness breaks against me, and that too is good
Last Line: Amber, amber, I call to you, while I stiffen %more beautiful than a jewel
Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Beginnings


AN EARLY LOVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Ah, sweet young blood, that makes the heart
Last Line: He has the fleece of gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE], by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old sweetheart of mine! -- is this her presence here with me
Last Line: To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Childhood; Nightmares


AN OPAL, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose of fire shut in a veil of snow
Last Line: And now they pale that they have been so bold.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


ANNIE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fragrance of her simple heart I still bathe my- / self
Last Line: Annie, one of the sweetest.
Subject(s): Girls; Love - Beginnings


ANOTHER ON LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where love begins, there dead thy first desire
Last Line: A sparke neglected makes a mighty fire.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


AT PEGASUS, by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are like those crazy women
Last Line: Wet & holy in its mouth
Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings; Desire


AT THE CLOSE OF SCHOOL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to-day I sit and muse
Last Line: Will haunt in my memory still.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students


ATHULF AND ETHILDA, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Appeared the princess with that merry child prince guy
Last Line: Wide is your error, and you never loved.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


AULD ROBIN FORBES, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And auld robin forbes hes gien tem a dance
Last Line: Is the turf that has covered my willy frae me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings


BECAUSE, by BETH CHENEY NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because last night one looked at me
Last Line: For one who looked at me.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our fathers' slow climb
Last Line: And the love, just beginning
Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents


BLACK TEA, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That wedding song keeps thrumming in my head like da vinci's
Last Line: Into worlds of wild honey. The gods are in the leaves.
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Separation; Isolation


BLOW ME EYES, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young and full o' pride
Last Line: But, blow me eyes, she did!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women


BRASSAI'S LOVERS, by A. V. CHRISTIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stall in moments of welcome and/or farewell
Last Line: Near the perfect curve of the swan's long, gilded neck
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships


BROWN PENNY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I whispered, 'I am too young'
Last Line: One cannot begin it too soon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Young Man's Song
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth


BY DEGREES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I make a very modest plea
Last Line: Perhaps you'll say the word.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


CAPRICE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hung the cage at the window
Last Line: Of blinding love upon his lips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


CATCH AND RELEASE, by MARK RUBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From behind you in the canoe, I watched
Last Line: Waiting patiently for romance and preening
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love - Beginnings


CHLAMYDIA, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex was as beautiful as flowers.
Last Line: And meant only for one
Subject(s): Chlamydia; Love - Beginnings


COLLOQUY AT PENIEL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Countenance like lightning, why do you stand
Last Line: It will be your body that will fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Love - Beginnings


COMIN' THRO' THE RYE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gin a body meet a body
Last Line: I dinna care to tell.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


CONDITIONAL PERFECT TENSE, by JOAN WIESE JOHANNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She could have called him from the motel
Last Line: At the time he predetermined yesterday
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


CONFESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall a maid make answer to a man
Last Line: Guard well the fort, lest new dreams enter in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beginning of time
Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat.
Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations


COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could pick anything and think of you-
Last Line: I fill this stolen time with you
Subject(s): Boys; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Youth


CUPID AND CAMPASPE, FR. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, by JOHN LYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid and my campaspe played
Last Line: What shall, alas! Become of me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John
Variant Title(s): Cards And Kisses;campaspe;apelles' Song
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


DA CAPO, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Short and sweet, and we've come to the end of it
Last Line: Begin it again.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


DAYS OF '74, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was the future then but affirmation
Last Line: To that first word repeated all night long
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DINNA ASK ME, by JOHN DUNLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye [or, thee]
Last Line: Gin he'd prove fause to me!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


DORIS, by CLARENCE S. HARPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down the lane and across the fields
Last Line: For doris was only talking.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


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


ELSINORE, by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have loved thee, elsinore
Last Line: Smile upon me, elsinore.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


EMMY AT THE ELDORADO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To meet, of all unlikely things
Last Line: Leaves you, for all but one, less fair.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


EROS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet
Last Line: This the first first-love, the first love of all!
Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Beginnings; Eros


FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am happy to meet you. My name is jose gomez carillo. What is
Last Line: The end
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings


FINALE MARINA! IF EVER YOU'D SEEN HER!, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wonderful fine she behaved!
Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love - Beginnings


FIRST, by MARYA MANNES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How can a long-used body reconstrue
Last Line: Over and over whispering other's name %until, one day, he hurt her as he came
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fair is love's first hope to gentle mind
Last Line: Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST GLIMPSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When love glimpsed me for the first time
Last Line: Though I was made of mud
Subject(s): God; Humility; Love - Beginnings


FIRST LOVE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd
Last Line: To another as I did to you!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women


FIRST LOVE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ne'er was struck befoe that hour / with love so sudden and so sweet
Last Line: And can return no more.
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Beginnings


FIRST LOVE, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her brown eyes circle
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST LOVE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor yonder, at her door
Last Line: The lad she did not wed.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST LOVE, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A slightering rustle through ivy and leaves
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST NIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We spent together was like
Last Line: Was becoming a real thing
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FIRST TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the first time we had made love
Last Line: Myself. It would be better so
Subject(s): Love; Love - Beginnings


FIRST TIME, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love felled me
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough
Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say
Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FIVE STILLS, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our first night together
Last Line: We uttered together, almost frightened by our gravity
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Peace; Silence; Togetherness


FORTUNATE LOVE: 1. FIRST SIGHT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first we met the nether world was white
Last Line: When first we met.
Variant Title(s): First Sight
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


FREEDOM AND LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How delicious is the winning
Last Line: In the knot there's no untying.
Variant Title(s): The First Kiss
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


GESTURE, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My arms were always quiet
Last Line: Like arms upon a cross.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Worship


GRAY EYES, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was april when you came
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love - Beginnings


GREEN CRAWLER FINDS ITS WAY, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mint sends our shoots, blind worms that crawl
Last Line: Grabs hold of the rosemary %and swallows the thyme
Subject(s): Courtship; Gardens And Gardening; Love - Beginnings


GREEN STREET GRILL: FIRST DATE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the silence
Last Line: Waiting to comply with the weather
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Travel


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


HER NEIGBOURS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They lingered at her father's door
Last Line: With one word answered - 'you'
Subject(s): Lent;love - Beginnings;youth


HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were willing to like me, and I did something,
Last Line: Is so wrong
Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings


HOW WE DISCOVER, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was three, or five, or eight
Last Line: It has taken this long to remember
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


IANTHE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ianthe, the lovely, the joy of her swain"
Last Line: And they still might be true
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings;passion


IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love
Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown.
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of


IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves
Last Line: (looking the other way.)
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets


INCONSTANCY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue eyes, gray eyes
Last Line: Or is it love I love?
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


JENNY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds
Last Line: The world seems one big grave to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Memory


JOCKEY AND JINNEY OR FIRST LOVE; A TALE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wereover many a stile neath willows grey
Last Line: Here they are blest and here the tale shall close
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


KATE TEMPLE'S SONG, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a touch, and nothing more
Last Line: Only a word, sweet! Only a touch!
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


KISSES, by WILLIAM STRODE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love and I for kisses played
Last Line: "take your own kisses; give me mine again."
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


KISSING'S NO SIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some say that kissing's a sin
Last Line: "if it wasn't plenty, / puir folk wadna get it"
Subject(s): Kisses;love - Beginnings


KITTY, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little lake, whose waters lay
Last Line: These verses, kitty?
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


KITTY NEIL, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, sweet kitty neil! Rise up from your wheel
Last Line: Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love!
Variant Title(s): An Irish Melody
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings


KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping
Last Line: For very soon after poor kitty's disaster %the devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine
Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings


LET US LIE CLOSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Let us lie close, as lovers should
Last Line: And with one kiss prepare for sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Rest; Sleep


LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway
Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel


LOVE, by GRACE IMOGEN DUFFY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like silver shafts imprisoned in a fine
Last Line: Listen! Listen! The whole world sings!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE IN EXILE II: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A twilight glow diffused on high
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward
Last Line: Bring her to my arms on the first may night.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Marital; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE'S AWAKENING, by WARREN HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sweet surprise! Thou image of my dream
Last Line: Thou'rt still the key that first unlocked my heart.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE'S DAWNING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her girlish face leaped into loveliness
Last Line: "turned and superbly shouted, ""hello, lil!"
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE'S DIET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, fair maid, tell me truly
Last Line: That the small elf's liquored.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE'S FIRST APPROACH, by JOAN PHILIPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strephon I saw, and started at the sight
Last Line: Tis better still than a wild liberty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountains mingle with the river
Last Line: If thou kiss not me?
Subject(s): Love; Love - Beginnings


LOVERS' PLAY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning my lady caught a mole
Last Line: Astonished at the song
Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings; Marriage; Wedding Song


LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not sing you to sleep
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings


LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not sing you to sleep
Last Line: And hope the terror in my heart stirs you
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings


MAGIC FLUTE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That summer in munich we were papageno and papagena
Last Line: In love. Beautiful days and now happy memories
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Pentastichs


MEMORIES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A beautiful and happy girl
Last Line: Our early dreams not wholly vain!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory


MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies
Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym
Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women


MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At venice, while the twilight hour
Last Line: Venice, june 1891
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Love - Beginnings; Time


MY LADY'S PLEASURE, by ROBERT GRAHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If doughty deeds my lady please
Last Line: Though ne'er another trow me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cunninghame-graham Of Gartmore
Variant Title(s): Cavalier's Song;to His Lady;oh, Tell Me How To Woo Thee
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


MY LODGING IT IS ON THE COLD GROUND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The cause of my misery
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


NEVER WENT TO BIRDLAND, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never went to birdland, so what, went to the y,
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Love - Beginnings; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism


NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a sort of eternity
Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor.
Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism


O'KEEFFEAN, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the window the pinon
Last Line: Your face.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


OF LOVE; A SONNET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How love came in, I do not know
Last Line: The out-let then is from the heart.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


ON BEING ASKED WHAT WAS THE 'ORIGIN OF LOVE', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The 'origin of love!' - ah! Why
Last Line: But live -- until I cease to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


ON REMEMBERING HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND, by PAUL FLEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though I must let her go, I am hers yet
Last Line: The thought of you will always lift my heart
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


ONCE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was a woodcutter
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings


ONE NIGHT, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O many a fairer, brighter face
Last Line: The mystic chords of love!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book
Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing.
Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators


OUR LADY OF CHANGE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes she's a merry young hoyden
Last Line: And so I shall do till I die!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains
Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations


PETER, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peter is a plain lad
Last Line: And his red hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


PLACES I WOULD LIVE, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not paris. Not london
Last Line: Like rebecca. Yes. Like that
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Travel


PRISONER OF CHILDHOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is night and your plane is now
Last Line: Loving begins loving which will de- %light and frighten him all his life
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree
Last Line: Each other, she and I.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations


QUARRELS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Didn't we meet in a garden, love
Last Line: That is john's or pete's or abie's.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


REPARTEE, by SAMUEL ALBERT YORK    Poem Text                    
First Line: They had whirled around in the steps of the waltz
Last Line: "this attachment is mutual, you know."
Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Beginnings


ROMANCE OF BRUNETTES AND BLONDES, by JACQUES BARON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Opera bound to the clouds
Last Line: She has been dead since
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


SEEDS OF LOVE, by MRS. FLEETWOOD HABERHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sowed the seeds of love, it was all in the spring
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


SMILE AND NEVER HEED ME, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though, when other maids stand by
Last Line: Then -- thou then -- mayst heed me!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


SOMETIMES THE FIRST BOYS DON'T COUNT, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking home through the woods from a movie at the plaza
Last Line: I swallowed like a brave girl, taking her medicine
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How have I dreamed you, lady
Last Line: O lady, lady, does your chimney burn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Praise


SONG OF LOVE'S COMING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love comes unawares
Last Line: Mine until my dying!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


SONG [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732], by GEORGE LYTTELTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When delia on the plain appears
Last Line: Tell me, my heart, if this be love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton
Variant Title(s): Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love
Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Love - Beginnings


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 75, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ruddy little apple
Last Line: Fall in love with me
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings


SWEET MAID OF MY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet maid of my dreams while my love seeks for thee
Last Line: From the fathomless depths I answer to thee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


SYMPTOM RECITAL, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not like my state of mind;
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 8. PRELUDE: THE KISS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw you take his kiss! 'tis true
Last Line: He thought I thought he thought I slept.'
Variant Title(s): Sly Thoughts
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Love - Beginnings


THE BUDS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I can see
Last Line: To whisper to.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spring


THE COMING OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me how this wonder came about
Last Line: His grace should find. And so I serve him still.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE CRUSHED AND BROKEN FLOWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the forest depths unknown
Last Line: Because he loved us so.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Beginnings; Pain; Suffering; Misery


THE DAWN OF LOVE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweeter than any earthly dawn is this
Last Line: There is a murmur of eternity.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE EGG-ROLLING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas jack the shrewd an' mike the tall
Last Line: Was all of solid china!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE FIRST KISS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On helen's heart the day were night!
Last Line: Young kiss of long ago!
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away with your fictions of flimsy romance
Last Line: Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


THE FIRST MEETING, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As sometimes with a sable cloud
Last Line: Comes from the motions of your mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 2. BRIDAL BIRTH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and
Last Line: Leaves us for light the halo of his hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE IVORY GATE; LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I be your first love, lady, shall I be your first
Last Line: And then die, weeping you.'
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE JANITOR'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy
Last Line: "with the janitor's red-haired boy."
Subject(s): Escapes; Janitors; Love - Beginnings; Fugitives


THE KISS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among thy fancies tell me this
Last Line: Love honey yields, but never stings.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings


THE LAST QUESTION, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New love, new love, where are you to lead me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE LITTLE MILLINER, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My girl, hath violet eyes and yellow hair
Last Line: To ashes, like the chestnuts, close together!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE LOVE-KNOT, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tying her bonnet under her chin
Last Line: As she tied her bonnet under her chin.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women


THE LOVER'S LEAP; A TALE, by ANDREW MACDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir bumper was a baron bold / as e'er romantic writ enrolled
Last Line: Was given in a matrimonial way.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings


THE NEW LOVE, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is man unto another wholly given
Last Line: But walk with god on earth, foretasting heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE ORIGIN OF LOVE; AN ALLEGORY, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When beauty was born, a magnificent fete
Last Line: Suspicious, mendacious, and fearful of blame.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE PLAIDIE, by CHARLES SIBLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon ane stormy sunday
Last Line: "wha kens but it may rain?"
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE PLUMS, by ALPHONSE DAUDET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, since you ask me, this is how
Last Line: We fell in love -- it was the plums!
Subject(s): Birds; Love - Beginnings; Orchards; Plums; Plum Trees


THE POOL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind through the summer woods blows cool
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Childhood Memories


THE QUEEN OF TOMPKINS SQUARE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met her at the mission school
Last Line: The queen of tompkins square.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare
Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


THE RUNAWAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast no one seen my heart of you?
Last Line: So christians fair, farewell.
Variant Title(s): "has No One Seen My Heart Of You"";
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE SEA-LANDS, by ORRICK JOHNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I were on the sea-lands
Last Line: And winds upon the door.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE SEEDS OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sowed the seeds of love
Last Line: In time it will rise again
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening;love - Beginnings


THE TELLTALE, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, on a golden afternoon
Last Line: "warbled the telltale -- ""do it again!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood waist-deep among the briers
Last Line: And I--I fell in love; ah me!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little love, do you remember
Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WHISTLE, by ROBERT STORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood
Last Line: "to sit there and whistle for -- what you might take!"
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THE YOUNG INTELLECTUAL TO HIS LOVE, by STODDARD KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, come with me, and we will try
Last Line: With thoughts, impeccably expressed.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HYDE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And they said, 'would we'd never left hyde!'
Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26. FIRST LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silly boy, 'tis full moon yet, thy night as day shines clearly
Last Line: Lives of all that ever breathed most worthy the envying.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships


THOUGHTS ON THE COMMANDMENTS, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love your neighbor as yourself
Last Line: Also loves her neighbor.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Ten Commandments


TO ONE WHO SAID SHE SHOULD LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sea-born venus guided o'er
Last Line: Whose glory rests in her alone.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


TO SARAH TAYLOR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breast
Last Line: Which conquers death, and triumphs over time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil
Last Line: And secret dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares


TRUE LOVE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth


TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 8, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes I loved them, those gatherings late at night
Last Line: And the first helpless and frightening glance of my love
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


TWIST AND TURN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He backs her up against the door
Last Line: Midnight streets sing love is born
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Sex


VERY LATE, BUT NOT TOO LATE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the last one to leave the party. I
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Beginnings; Male-female Relations


WHEN LOVE WAS BORN, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When love was born I think he lay
Last Line: Erelong, erelong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young and thou wast young
Last Line: A word light as a feather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Children; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Childhood


WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad
Last Line: O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings


WHO COMES SO GRACEFULLY?, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the next—gone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth


WHY I MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT FOOTBALL GAME, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes you know
Last Line: Was wide open! The end was wide open . . .
Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings


YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man kissed her hand. Little earrings. They're about
Last Line: Confederate flag. She kisses the man on his cheek.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


YOUNG LOVE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a dream the infant love
Last Line: Thorrow my being glide!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings