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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - LOSS OF Matches Found: 1169 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SONG, FR. AURENGE-ZEBE (OPERA)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I see she flies me everywhere Last Line: "I might live longer, but not love her more" Subject(s): Disdain;love - Loss Of; Scorn ...WHO WAS BORN DEAD, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: She is far away. Very far Last Line: Who did not speak, but I listen to you yet Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sisters 4 A.M., by JOHN SAMUEL TIEMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a leaf which wishes to drop Last Line: Her skin amid all the dark Subject(s): Death; Li Po (701-762); Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Silence A BALLADE OF OLD SWEETHEARTS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it that weeps for the last year's flowers Last Line: Ah! Lost are the loves of the long ago. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A BIRD AT SUNSET, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird, that wingest wide the glimmering moors Last Line: At night upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You, moving with women and men Last Line: When time was a toy of your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Well may I shrink to wake, and on me find Last Line: —as I attend! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past A DEAD WOMAN, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, she was beauteous; if the night Last Line: In which she never read! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The A DREAM-SONG, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A love-song died on my heart in a dream Last Line: Will return and restore my dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melodies; Music & Musicians A FAREWEL TO LOVE, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Well, since in spight of all that love can do Last Line: And think no more of hymen, or of love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Muses A FAREWELL, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if I did, what then? Last Line: "as they do now at me." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love - Loss Of; Anglers A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America A FOREST RENDEZVOUS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said someone was waiting Last Line: Being blind. Subject(s): Forests; Love - Loss Of; Woods A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GIRL'S AUTUMN REVERIE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We plucked a red rose, you and I Last Line: We woke but to remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer A GIRL'S SONG, by H. THOMPSON RICH Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall and deepen Last Line: I lift my lips to thee. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Paradise A GRAVE SONG, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've a pocketful of emptiness Last Line: Will you walk with me, will you follow the dead? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LANCASHIRE LOVER (AT THE UNDERTAKER'S), by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis so sudden and strange to me Last Line: May she have the ring now? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LAST DAY, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Lower, lower burn thou fire Last Line: There, the last weak spark is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LIFE'S LOSS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the summer day Last Line: Though the stream moan on. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A LOST LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summer ago when he left me here Last Line: Good-by, my lover; good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Lost Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sea; Summer; Ocean A LYRIC, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I sing light-souled and fancy-free Last Line: When my loved lord no longer smiles on me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation A MIDNIGHT SERENADE FOR HER PERFUMED MAJESTY (AN ENCORE), by ANGELO DE LUCA Poem Text First Line: Oh, I died many deaths throughout that day Last Line: I blew my candle, and I went to bed. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Songs A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A POOR FRENCH SAILOR'S SCOTTISH SWEETHEART, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot forget my joe [jo] Last Line: Is bible and charm for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails A POOR TORN HEART, A TATTERED HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lead the wandering sails Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A REVERIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Last Line: And broken hedge-flowers sweet, mark his impetuous way. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers A REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I know not, - what, o little maiden Last Line: Leant on my heart and mixt its dream with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares A SCOTCH SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gowan glitters on the sward Subject(s): Shepherds And Sheperdesses; Love - Loss Of A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, farewell! 'tis an ancient tale this / call Last Line: To flower in immortality. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Parting A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A TEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a test I designed, in a quiet Last Line: And no mist of distress in her glorious eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation A TRUANT FROM EDEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a mazy, sunlit garden Last Line: As sharp the clock rang out for noon! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting 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 A TRUE TALE TO MRS. J - S. WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST, by MARY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: Why madam, must I tell this idle tale? Last Line: We met as lovers, and we parted friends. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A VALENTINE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Cruel heart! Ere these posthumous papers Last Line: That one last word -- that fare -- fare -- fare thee well. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day A WHISPER FROM THE GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life points with a radiant hand Last Line: Among the willow trees down there. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beeches are vibrant because there is black Last Line: Like lace. Jane with sunspots; with, almost, grace. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Trees; Dejection A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 10, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, ere I go, forgive me each least wrong Last Line: Too wholly gave a love disconsolate. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love - Loss Of; Clemency A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 11, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain Last Line: My tumults and my joys I may proclaim. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 12, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis ended truly, truly as was best Last Line: I love thee, bless thee, dear, where'er thou go. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 5, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the cost to me, with this farewell Last Line: With the rude fight, think not I shall relent. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 6, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I lost? The faith I had that right Last Line: To thee alone naught needs to be confessed. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 7, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I gained? A little charity? Last Line: I had, like jesse's son, a soothing power. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 8, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sue thee not for pity on my case Last Line: With open eyes to love and death I went. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 9, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day draws nigh, methinks, when I could stay Last Line: The love-light in thine eyes, and not for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AD ASTRA: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Judge from thy heart, how much I long for thee! Last Line: Pillow'd upon the surge of thy soft breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise AD ASTRA: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou star! That shone upon me from a height Last Line: Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness ADDRESS TO THE ATHEIST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse! Where shall I begin the spacious field Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ADDRESS TO THE DIEST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you? Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AFTER GRIEF, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: At first when thou wert gone, thy memory Last Line: The more my hope and singing, am I free. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery AFTER LOVE, by MERLE PRICE Poem Text First Line: You used to laugh at me and say Last Line: A ghost in april rain. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no magic anymore Last Line: For all its peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER LOVE HAD ENDED, by ELEANOR A. FAY Poem Text First Line: See the silver streak as it gleams and flashes Last Line: Sorrow transcended. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mabel, 'tis over and ended Last Line: I think it will happen in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes AFTER-SIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is vibrant with you -- but they say Last Line: This is the soul I loved, and never knew! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AFTERMATH, by LOUISE BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, they are singing your praises Last Line: Hurl me past stars and moon! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AFTERWARDS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love you now Last Line: Threaded with stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AGAINST LOST LOVE, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: An old woman Last Line: Having expected to fly. Stay, I want to beg you, %we'll have another life Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AH, THAT YOU ESCAPE IN THE FLASH, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source Last Line: Stretches out like a cat to let itself be defined Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of ALEXANDRINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the morning of palm sunday, in village adair Last Line: Alexandrine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Palm Sunday; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism ALMOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The one-legged pigeon wins the crust Last Line: I almost taste %love lost. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Victory ALMOST LOVE POEM, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: There's a time when love wants to come again, but finally Last Line: And closed differently at dawn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ALMOST WINTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Just now, when ice first cuts Last Line: Fresh snow on the river %frost on the lawn Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory ALONE WITH GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the bier I watched his rest divine Last Line: Each, in the stillness, was alone with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england first a wilderness was found Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AMOR MYSTICUS, by MARCELA DE CARPIO DE SAN FELIX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let them say to my lover Last Line: Of death to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 4. VAIN MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, your memory's voice grows fainter, her face pale Last Line: My heart is dead that was a heart of many sighs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 5. THE RETURN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little hand is knocking at my heart Last Line: And will not knock again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS EXSUL: 2. LOSS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I lost in losing you Last Line: And life itself, in losing you! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who has entered by this sorrow's door Last Line: All that I know of love I learnt of you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 10, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white foam rushes back into the night Last Line: Across the wind and moonlight of the sea? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 11, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have endured a week's oblivion Last Line: The soft and sudden barrier of the sky. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 12, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is love's ghost that I have met today Last Line: And love is dead, for I have met love's ghost. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 14, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way of all transgressors is not hard Last Line: Moan on the grave of love that you have slain? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 3, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it this weary and most constant heart Last Line: That aches in me, to know that you are lost? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 4, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that you are lost to me, and yet Last Line: For love's sake, to forget you for one hour! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 9, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot work: I dare not sit alone Last Line: Stand listening for your step upon the stair. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AMOROUS ANTICIPATION, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the intimacy of your forehead clear as a celebration Last Line: The fiction of time destroyed, %without love, without me Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence AMOUR DE VOYAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was a man who could write you rhyme Last Line: And who in their senses would wish for more? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets AMYNTA, by GILBERT ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: My sheep I neglected, I broke my sheep-hook Last Line: The moments neglected return not again. Subject(s): Ambition; Love - Loss Of AN APOLOGY FOR AVOIDING ... A WOMAN ONCE LOVED, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See me no more on earth, I pray Last Line: The ashes still had warm'd the heart so cold to-day! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AN EAGLE FOLDS HIS WINGS, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: Like a mighty eagle he soared Last Line: For at last the eagle was folding his wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AN ELEGY (4), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you must go, and I must bid farewell Last Line: Till I may see both it and you again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AN END, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go away from me -- do! I am tired Last Line: In the nest of the old, and a ghost on the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; May (month); Spring AN EPISTLE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part Last Line: Yet dare not ask a hand to lessen it. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting AN ERRAND, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept, and where her lonely flower-knots gleam Last Line: "breathes memory of our love that shall not die." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The AN EVENING IN PRISON, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From intricate clustera of stars Last Line: Snuff out the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AN HYMN TO HUMANITY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! For this dark terrestrail ball Last Line: With ev'ry heav'nly art. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN HYMN TO THE EVENING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main Last Line: Then cease, my song, till fair aurora rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Night; Bedtime AN HYMN TO THE MORNING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine Last Line: And scarce begun, concludes th' abortive song. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness AN OLD BACHELOR, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is a jade of a wayward life Last Line: As for me, I will not have the creature about. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People AN UNWRITTEN TRAGEDY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream! Last Line: And pluck a feather out and write such things? Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy; Dead, The ANCIENT BALLAD: LOVE THAN DEATH MORE STRONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The conde nino all for love %has crossed the ocean wide Last Line: She a heron and he a hawk %flew upward through the skies Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of ANGER, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were arguing Last Line: I am committed %fully %intentionally %to you Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: That next morning, after she died Last Line: Do not be afraid Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANNA AND HARLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNA AND HENRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the glade was anna wont's to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright bow reflected on the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNE RUTLEDGE, by HESTER BARBOUR NEWEY Poem Text First Line: Long years ago my sweetheart said goodbye Last Line: "if memories of anne live in your fame." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Time ANNIVERSARY, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was a kindly storm, I know Last Line: They say you called the far ship's name, %they say that tristram did the same Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of ANOTHER LETTER OF THE ALPHABET, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is your name, a stone on the tongue, here is Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANOTHER TOMORROW, by PAULINE LEWELLING DEVITT Poem Text First Line: Was it only last night in half darkness that I met him midway on Last Line: Pray grant me another tomorrow! Love stirs like new life at its start. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANSWER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! Sublimest of the nine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANSWER TO THE REBUS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet asks, and phillis can't refuse Last Line: And add new glory to her name. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANTIGONE, SELECTION, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eros invincible Last Line: Homeless among the living and the dead! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ANTS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: To warm life passing singing with the grace Last Line: Them to me on the graveyard's critical threshold, %their bread and perfume, venom and cautery Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude APRIL LOVE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have walked in love's land a little way Last Line: With a sigh, a smile? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In middle age an evil thing Last Line: For captives he held fast. Subject(s): Hate; Love; Love - Loss Of; War ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old kraken read a missive penned Last Line: Great heart, archduchess anne. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mercy ARE YOU NAPPING?, by IM JE Poem Source First Line: Are you napping or just hiding, lying Last Line: That I cannot raise to my sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight to the river Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy AS A FATHER SHOULD BE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You came %rushing against the clock Last Line: I love you dad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of AS EARTH BEGINS TO END, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach out my hand and it sinks through you like soft fruit Last Line: Or button the body's last, unbuttonable coat Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626) Poem Text First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break. Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AS ONE ACKNOWLEDGES DREAM AND EXILE, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Night has now come and I acknowledge you Last Line: And not clothe your new novels, your novels of duress Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of AT A FUNERAL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her too, this woman who is dead Last Line: Who do not weep. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went and stood outside myself Last Line: One beam! Yea, she is gone, is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AT THE END, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was when love's dear ways I used to know Last Line: And left me for companion my despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ATONEMENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a lonely garden on the hill Last Line: O let my death atone! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Shadows; Dead, The 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 AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement AWAKE AT NIGHT, RUINED BY THE MOCKING, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: A cockroach crawled across my chest last night Last Line: And the large basin hummed like a bell Subject(s): Absence; Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Marriage AWAKENING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those moments of my grief when I am Last Line: Doctors. I had been taking it all out on susan Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Waking AWAY, YOUR TOUCH IS EVERYWHERE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To lie alone in our double home %a salesman in a rented room Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BACKSTAGE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The girl standing at the door told me how to do it. She said: you must get Last Line: You whisper bend me backwards and inform me of your concept of god Subject(s): Deception; Girls; Love - Loss Of; Murder BALEFUL RETURN, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: It is better not to go back to the village Last Line: And the intimate responsive sadness Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of BALLAD OF CONSTANCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My raiment is my weapons Last Line: All must be braved Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of BALLAD OF MY BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend, my friend Last Line: The one I lost today.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Pain; Romance BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BASIC BLACK, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For simplicity's sake I don't think about her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BEAUTY, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: He looked inside to find beauty Last Line: To plant a small animal Subject(s): Emptiness; Love - Loss Of BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BEHOLD, LORD, THOU DIDST TEAR FROM ME WHAT I MOST DID LOVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And now, lord, are we, my heart and the sea all alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BEREAVED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day as I came down by jarrow Last Line: "ah, soundly she'll sleep by their side!" Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of BERTHA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She seem'd so gentle, she seem'd so good Last Line: May pass through her confinement scatheless. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BETSY LEE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said I would? Well, I hardly know Last Line: "and-----"" ""watch below! Turn up!"" ""aye, aye, sir!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BETWEEN WIVES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was trying to teach him a lesson Last Line: That is the killing thing about him Subject(s): Divorce; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Women BEYOND, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: Beyond life, my love, always farther beyond Last Line: You permit love beyond the life of a man Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BIRDS' LAMENT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, says the linnet, if I sing Last Line: But after her I'll whoop and hollo. Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of BITTER RUE, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their love that was so exigent Last Line: May wither all life's passion flowers. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past BLACK BOX, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: If the black box is the only thing that Last Line: Listen to you talk to me all night Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Boxes; Death; Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers BLASTING, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She drilled a drill of loss within her heart Last Line: Engulfed the tinkling city's decorous hiss. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BLIND, by JOSEPH KARIUKI Poem Source First Line: When you left Last Line: Such an ingrate? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BLUE DAYS, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Come dazzling blue days Last Line: What I alone should live and you die? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BOB, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I fell asleep for a brief moment Last Line: You let me know %thank you bob Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And weariness follows, and the infinite ache Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BOLERO OF THE THIRD GOODBYE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sing well Last Line: Sing well, mi cielo, sing well Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BONNIE ANNIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing BONNY BEE HO'M, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By arthur's dale as late I went Subject(s): Lament;love - Loss Of BOOK OF VISIONS: THE RETURN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since Last Line: Earth! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The BOTHWELL BANK, by JOHN PINKERTON Poem Text First Line: On the blithe beltane, as I went Last Line: But ah! Thou mak'st my heart fu' sair.' Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Love - Loss Of BREACH OF PROMISE, by YI HYONGGI Poem Source First Line: Promise resounds when broken Last Line: Somehow we regret, %somehow it resounds Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BRIGHT IN THE EAST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By tens and thousands the stars go out Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of BROKEN HEARTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog creeps into my shadowed form Last Line: It never knew its master was a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The BROKEN LOVE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look upon thy face, and reason says / it is the same Last Line: Eros has fled. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BURIED LOVE (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come to bury love Last Line: When none will know Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers CAN YOU FORGET ME?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you forget me? - I who have so cherished Last Line: You have forgotten me. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In remote meditation, I was fingering Last Line: Sweeping away dust and shooting up ash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of CANTICA, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of CANZONE: OF HIS DEAD LADY, by GIACOMINO PUGLIESI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, why hast thou made life so hard to bear Last Line: Be thine. Even so Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CAPTIVE KNIGHT AND THE BLACKBIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis now, they say, the month of may, - 'tis now the moons are bright Last Line: Nay, since he has no merle to hear, 'tis time his fetters fall Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity CELEBRATE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were there when I was sad and blue Last Line: We were on our way Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of CELESTE: 11. A PRAYER TO SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint anthony of padua, whom I bear Last Line: Bring back her heart: I lost it yesterday. Subject(s): Anthony Of Padua, Saint (1195-1231); Love - Loss Of; Prayer 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 MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing Last Line: Love is aweary now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 33, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, o now, in this brown land Last Line: The year, the year is gathering. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time CHANGE IN RECURRENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the gate of the cot Last Line: And tap-tapped the shell hard on a stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The CHARM OF THE RAINS, by FRANCISCO CONTRERAS Poem Source First Line: It rains, and rains, and rains. The clouds hang low Last Line: Meanwhile it rains, rains, rains, and does not tire Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Tears CHERRY-BUDS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: When cherry-buds appear Last Line: Should not be sung or said. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Love - Loss Of CHIAROSCURO, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Saskia, from where do shadows come? Last Line: Will darkness truly come for me Subject(s): Death; Drawing; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Paintings And Painters CHIMNEYS, by ALICE FRASER Poem Text First Line: Empty chimneys stand like tombstones Last Line: So will I stand when you are gone. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation CHIPMUNK, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little chipmunk, do you know Last Line: That's all -- it was long ago. Subject(s): Chipmunks; Love - Loss Of CHIPPEWA MUSIC: MY LOVE HAS DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A loon Last Line: Can I see him Subject(s): Farewell;love - Loss Of; Parting CINQUE TERRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CINQUE TERRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CLARIMONDE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With elbow buried in the downy pillow Last Line: Thou owest to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness CLEAR, COOL STREAMS THAT SOFTLY FLOW, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Boldly thou could'st aspire! Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CLYTIE, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: My manes to clytie are crying, 'farewell, fair one! Last Line: "o! Weep, and with fond arms open, thy kisses give!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of COLLEEN AND I, by LEONARD WOOD Poem Text First Line: We often roamed the fields together, colleen and I Last Line: Colleen and I. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What needs complaints / when she a place Last Line: No more. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement CONSUMMATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In a garden, soul to soul we met and loved Last Line: On a moonlit-glow: 'twere better death would wed. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness CONVERSATION OF OLD HUSBANDS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's gone, clemente, I know Last Line: When you look at her, clemente, %I see her too Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Marriage COULD I FORGET!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Could my wakening spirit but forget Last Line: My love now dead, but once so wholly mine! Subject(s): Death; Forget-me-nots; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise CRISTINA AND MONALDESCHI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, but how they loved each other, marquis! Last Line: Whence ... Let avon tell the rest! Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689); Love - Loss Of CROWNED, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me bearing bright roses Last Line: A diadem woven with rue. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CUPID SLAIN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a burial Last Line: Let me weep to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Burials CUPID'S BANISHMENTE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What recke I now of comely dame? Last Line: False love and I have sunge farewel! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CYPRESS, by JOSE A. CALCANO Poem Source First Line: Should you pass by my grave Last Line: Of that sad cypress tree! Subject(s): Absence; Cypress Trees; Graves; Love - Loss Of 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 DALLAS: HIS DIRGE, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Dallas is dead Last Line: No loveliness while dallas is alive. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a handsome night %kindling with love in flame of yearning keen Last Line: Ceas'd, as I slumbere'd there %amid the lilies drowning all my care Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Soul DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DARK-WINGED SWALLOWS WILL RETURN, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not love you so! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Swallows DARKNESS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness steals a city Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth DAWN OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You can see the face of everything, and it is white Last Line: In the soul, as they say, not in time at all Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soul DAY OF SCATTERED RAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It is a day of scattered rain Last Line: And let me break open! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory DAYS OF 1971, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen from the clouds, well-met Last Line: Little horse, still blushing, set to cool Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DE EROTIO PUELLA, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This girl was sweeter than the song of swans Last Line: My child-love and my playmate -- snatcht away. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Loss Of DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEAD LOVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of all that's cold in arctic skies Last Line: Nor dead as love that once had birth. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DEAREST ONE; A SONG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are all of thee Last Line: Dearest one, o dearest one. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation DEEPER STILL, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Deep in my grief Last Line: Richard, was this your way of saying that you love me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of DEFERRED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not grieve for you while autumn lingers Last Line: But, oh, the time comes ... When I must! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DEFIANCE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch her and hold her if you can Last Line: Sparkled, and ran into the shade. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women DEISM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality DEO GRATIAS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The gates of death yawned wide, my love Last Line: To have thee evermore. Subject(s): Death; God; Love - Loss Of; Prayer; Dead, The DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone. Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DESERTED LOVER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I go through wet spring woods alone Last Line: I want you so Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DESIDERIUM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Face in the tomb, that lies so still Last Line: Gazing forever in immortal eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DIFFERENT THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY G.S. NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the truest reading of thy look? Last Line: On which I swear forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Paintings And Painters; Women DIRGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reached the middle of the mount Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem' Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of DIRGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What longer need hath she of loveliness Last Line: And flowering springs that mock her empty years? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT TEARS, by HERBERT J. LIPSITZ Poem Text First Line: Grass will not wither when you have left me Last Line: Little enough need for wringing of aged hands. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISCOVERY (1), by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road I walked and stared Last Line: Neath lifting lids discovered? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Past DISENCHANTMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love has sicklied unto loath Last Line: The very buttercups are rancid. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of DISILLUSION, by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: I thought your love would clothe me Last Line: Of my heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DISILLUSIONMENT, by LOIS E. SANDISON Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you knew, and kept from me Last Line: I never dreamed regret itself would go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret DO YOU REMEMBER THAT NIGHT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I am ready to go with you Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you walked out Last Line: One sock between his teeth that once was yours. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Revenge DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your wife left before you woke Last Line: Burns less brightly. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DONAL KENNY, by JOHN KEEGAN CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, piper, play the 'shaskan reel' Last Line: For donal kenny's heart was broken. Alternate Author Name(s): Leo Subject(s): Love - Loss Of DONNA MARINA: WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Without your love, life hath no hope for me Last Line: And live—without your love? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could ye come back to me, douglas, douglas Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): Too Late Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my life to another lover Last Line: Is waiting tho' I see him not. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares DRIFTS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: With drifts of bloom on the hills Last Line: Through the drifts of smiles and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Youth DROWN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sick with this Last Line: This will only take an hour %or two Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships DU LINIANG, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: Though your accurate portrait you compared yourself to a divine beauty Last Line: At peony pavilion your reincarnation accomplished fate Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Plays And Playwrights; Tragedy DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty" Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear" Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History; EAGLE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I stand %with my arms held aloft Last Line: I will make you proud Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of EBB, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know what my heart is like Last Line: Drying inward from the edge. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ECLOGUE: ELINOURE AND JUGA, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On rudborne bank two pining maidens sat Last Line: Yelled their deadly knell, sank in the waves, and died. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ECLOGUE: SALICIO AND NEMOROSO, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: Did, face to face upbraid her questioned %truth Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Love - Loss Of 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 EDWARD GRAVES, by ANDREW NELSON LYTLE Poem Text First Line: Here where the honey-suckle vines grow wan Last Line: The table set, and jane run off with a show. Subject(s): Betrayal; Love - Loss Of EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake Last Line: The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Lakes; Love - Loss Of; Pools; Ponds EFFIE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was wearin' awa'! She was wearin' awa'! Last Line: The dear lassie dwells wi' the angels o' licht. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ELEGY AT A LOVER'S GRAVE, by CLINTINE STRINGER Poem Text First Line: My eyes / are filled with tears Last Line: From an eternity of sun! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ELEGY ON LEAVING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel! Ye friendly bowers, ye streams adieu Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ELEGY, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND DR. SAMUEL COOPER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose exit wraps in boundless woe Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ELUDED, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the night I heard Last Line: (no lost love stepped within my room -- only the pallid dawn!) Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Rain EMITTING A FLOOD OF LIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forces which came from without Subject(s): Love - Loss Of EMPTY ROOM, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: My wife is %gone Last Line: I'll rise above the far-off river, %a crescent moon Subject(s): Absence; Death; Emptiness; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners END OF SEASON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It was a month like october Last Line: With the last tip of the year Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Seasons ENDURANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He bent above: so still her breath Last Line: To be immortal and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement EPHEMERA, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Whither do the sweet sounds fly Last Line: Lives my love, o lady fair? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Rest EPICEDIUM, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore! Ah, nevermore! Last Line: Ah, sweet word, never more! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear cupid, (I cried) do consult with your mother" Last Line: And my chloe at length fell in love with another Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;women EPITAPH FOR MY TOMB, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Here I lie at rest: alfonsina says Last Line: Still another lie: that she was ever satisfied Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of EPITAPH: 29, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of me? He lived a span Last Line: Then died.—no more?—what more of any man? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EROTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet Last Line: Lull thee or lure, more fond thou wilt not find. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ESCAPE, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ Poem Text First Line: Just a little while to wait,' she said, 'and I'll be back' Last Line: "she may come again or stay away, I shall not care at all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul Subject(s): Escapes; Love - Loss Of; Fugitives ESSAY: FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPED APART, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What symmetry can there be Last Line: In pursuit of roads and balance, birds. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation ESTRANGEMENT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was so hard to say good-bye Last Line: So close, yet far away! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ESTRANGEMENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, without overt breach, we fall apart Last Line: And idle is the rumour of the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Love - Loss Of EVENING, by ELLEN M. DODSON Poem Text First Line: Come love, let's wander to the woodland / west Last Line: E'en at life's close, I'm thrilled by that strange power. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So. Yes. But still there is this peace between us Last Line: You say my name, you remind me %and I return Subject(s): Absence; Footprints; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships EXILE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A common folk I walk among Last Line: When this sad pilgrimage is done. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets; Solitude; Loneliness EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first time, when at night I went about Last Line: Such things the heart can bear and yet not break. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAIR HELEN OF KIRCONNEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold me upon thy faithful heart Last Line: Clasp me once more -- I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAITH DESTROYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I love him? I looked up to him Last Line: That which I loved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Troy FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far below, plowed fields vibrated Last Line: An emptiness he could fill with song. Variant Title(s): "far Below, Plowed Fields""; Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a heart that doted once in passion's boundless Last Line: That peace on earth itself begins, when love has bid farewell. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAREWELL TO LOVE; SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet love! Yet blame you not my truth Last Line: With thoughts that please me less, and less betray me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FAREWELL TO NANCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever Last Line: Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Variant Title(s): Song;a Fond Kiss Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting FEAR, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Fear grips me Last Line: I am sad beyond words Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of FELISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said between us here Last Line: Good-night, good-bye. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of; May (month) FELO DE SE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FELO DE SE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Last Line: In all my pulses, and dissolves the marriage %of soul and soul, and at he heart's core kills you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FIELDS OF SORIA: 7, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silvered hills %grey downs and sombre rocky places Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of FIFTY YEARS, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: So you are here to salute my years Last Line: And now I smile because I belong to her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory FINALITY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love's triumphant day is done Last Line: And leave the emptiness to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FINDING YOU, by VIRGINIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was the way Last Line: Good-byes. It gives me something %to look forward to Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FINIS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it's over, and now it's done; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FIRES OF LOVE, by VILETA NELSON CHARTIER Poem Text First Line: You lit the spark of love one day Last Line: The embers warm. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Loss Of FIRST LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday morning, I had the new york Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The FLESH, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of this world I live for-a woman you named Last Line: Where everything appears to be either angel or skull Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory FLOWERS FOR MY FRIEND, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: The flowers that I would give my friend Last Line: While he can see. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love - Loss Of FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What shall I doe if love me leave? Last Line: Is my owne beloved one.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FOLKSONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O goatherds and you shepherds say Last Line: Weeping and wailing she went east! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FOR AYE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lilacs wilt beneath the blast Last Line: For aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Past FOR CUPID DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is dead, what more but funeral rites Last Line: Since he is gone, the world is out of tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FORGET ME NOT, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me, when morn with trembling light Last Line: Forget me not! Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Parting FORGOTTEN, by CORA L. BUTTERFIELD Poem Text First Line: Her pathway was strewn with rose petals Last Line: And gone the love he bestowed. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of; Japanese FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: DECEMBER AT YASE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, that october Last Line: Or have done what my %karma demands Subject(s): Japan; Love - Loss Of FOUR SONNETS: 4, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: So lucy found at last the world was blind Last Line: A quaint old lady, with old-fashioned curls. Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of FRAGMENT WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CHAWORTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills of annesley, black and barren Last Line: Makes ye seem a heaven to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRAGMENTS (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is winged for two Last Line: For that then so winged were we. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRAGMENTS (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is fleet Last Line: Sorrow, be mine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness FREEDOM, by BARBARA BROOKE RAWLINS Poem Text First Line: From you I have been independent, free Last Line: Which none but time or you can ever free. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead? Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.) Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FRIENDSHIP AFTER LOVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Last Line: And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER (FOR MUSIC), by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glad spring when leaves were green Last Line: Fond dove, fond dove return again. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FROM THOUGHT TO THOUGHT, FROM HILL TO HILL, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis my spirit dwells in thee Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FUNERAL, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of funerals, the saddest Last Line: And gods: the resurrector. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials GACELA OF LOVE'S MEMORY, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Don't take away your memory. Last Line: Leave it alone in my chest Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GALLEYS OF SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye galleys of our land %arrest your oars again Last Line: Sp let my lover rest %who drags your heavy chain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Peace; Rest; Spain GATHERING OF FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were a gathering of friends Last Line: And I'm glad you were there Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GEHENNA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When locked in marble death's embrace Last Line: At last—at last? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The GHAZEL OF UNFORSEEN LOVE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: No one could perceive the perfume Last Line: Your mouth now without light for my death Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Jasmine; Love - Loss Of GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Life, are you keeping something in reserve? Last Line: Evening falls...Hurry to bring your gift? Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Prayer GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: O life, are you perhaps keeping some gift for me? Last Line: Make haste to bring me your gift! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Prayer GIRLS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When he leaves, %he leaves a space Last Line: Trying to breathe %and waiting to be kissed Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Single People GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GOD'S WORLD AND MINE, by GRACE SUE NIES Poem Text First Line: They tell me heaven lies afar Last Line: Love, my love, came! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise GOLIATH OF GATH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine Last Line: "with me, nor quit my regal roof again." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality GONE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When I am gone your pillows will smell like me Last Line: You will swear your apartment is haunted Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Moving And Movers GONE, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Without the solar flare I starve Last Line: Was too much. First, you laughed, %then you left Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GOOD-BYE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye! - 'tis like a churchyard bell - goodbye! Last Line: Good-bye! Good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GOOD-NIGHT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night. Good-night. Ah, good the night Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Night; Religion; Parting; Bedtime; Theology GRAINNE: AFTER THE DEATH OF DIARMUID, by CATHAL O'BYRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the twilight of a wood she came Last Line: Deep in the inmost core of her lone heart. Subject(s): Legends, Irish; Love - Loss Of GRASSES, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the distance, when purpling clouds lean down close Last Line: And is going-breath, shadow-feather, cloud Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital GREAT LOVERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Why did we think no power in heaven Last Line: There'll be a poor, unhappy lady, crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GREATER MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart there lay buried for years Last Line: That heart and that memory dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Past; Reunions GRIEF, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I have ridden on waves of grief Last Line: Chisled of rough edges %and made new Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GROWN AND FLOWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my love from green of spring Last Line: Now bitter bitter grown to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HARVEST-HOME, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: The moon was curving like a sickle Last Line: To tell her that his heart was broken. Subject(s): Harvest; Home; Love - Loss Of HAVEN AND LAST REFUGE OF MY PAIN, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lest death should vanquish love Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of HE HEARS THAT HIS BELOVED HAS BECOME ENGAGED, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat Last Line: You'll only change her. Till, I'm sure you're right Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HE HEARS THAT HIS BELOVED HAS BECOME ENGAGED, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat Last Line: In saying love, but meaning interference? %you'll only change her. Still, I'm sure you're right Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEART CRY, by STELLA DOTY HARE Poem Text First Line: If only you and I by chance had met Last Line: Wait there, my dearest one, wait there for me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEART'S TIDE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: I thought I had forgotten you Last Line: Your memory floods them and I weep. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nature HEART-DEATHS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts oft die bitter deaths before Last Line: And eyes must watch and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HEARTBREAK, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE GROOM Poem Text First Line: I would remember the flower Last Line: The frost on a flower's face. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEINELET, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: They met, as it were, in a mist Last Line: And the cold mist is thicker than ever. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HER FLOWER, by GEORGE ALBERT SOPER Poem Text First Line: Little flower, fading, dying Last Line: In her breast. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of HER GIFT TO US, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %when I am with you Last Line: Do you know how much she loved you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of HER INITIALS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a poet's page I wrote Last Line: The radiance has died away. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HER SECRET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That love's dull smart distressed my heart Last Line: Did he dream of following me! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HER SECRET IS BETRAYED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a happy time you said to me Last Line: That grief for you no longer grieves my heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HERE IS MUSIC: 15. VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: No matter what the future bring, or give Last Line: Not to have known you had been not to live! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HERE IS MUSIC: VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I would not be a boy again Last Line: For castle situate in spain. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness HERNANI, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cistercians might crack their sides Last Line: The horn of the old gentleman! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy HEROIC LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When our glowing dreams were dead Last Line: "love can never be till then." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Heroism; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HIDDEN SHORE, by DINA COE Poem Source First Line: All quiet behind the briars until the sparrow that hushed at Last Line: That's left %to love? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seashore HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the princess of life gone out Last Line: We got both harbors Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation HIGHLAND MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks, and braes, and streams around Last Line: Shall live my highland mary. Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial choir! Enthron'd in realms of light Last Line: With gold unfading, washington! Be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): George Washington Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) HIS LADY'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the gardens, all through may, the rose Last Line: That dead, as living, she may be with roses. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it she lies here Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust. Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The HOLY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I eat only sleep and air Last Line: And I will be so slight that I will pass through all of you %silently %like wind Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Self-consciousness; Selflessness HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HOPE FOR THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Ye holy ministers of love Last Line: To nobler toils pass on! Pass on! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOPE FOR THOSE SEPARATED BY WAR, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They crossed her face with blood Last Line: Yet his thin hands %crawled back and found her out Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of HORACE TO LYDIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Old sweetheart mine, your charms decline Last Line: To satiate my great heart-hunger! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HOW GREY THE WORLD WAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How grey the world was with its memories Last Line: The news that you are here, in psalm and shout! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days on gawain's tomb sir lancelot wept Last Line: "and cried, ""alas! Ah, who may trust this world!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness I AM FREEZING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid sunshine's glow I freezing stand Last Line: I freeze -- my heart is dead! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: About my lone life settles, wild and wide Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What can be said Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting - more Variant Title(s): Poem: 29 Subject(s): God; Love; Love - Loss Of I LONG FOR SOLID EARTH IN HEAVEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: So they do not rise Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of I MET WI' HER I LUVED YESTREEN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sin' I hac lost that bonnie blossom! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses I SENT MY TRUE LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my true love on his way Last Line: Through long and empty years. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those last days Last Line: I should have known Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I WILL SET OUT TO-MORROW, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will set out to-morrow when the dawn-light whitens all the land Last Line: Then will I lay this holly-spray and heather on thy bier. Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Waiting; Dead, The I WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HERE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were miles away Last Line: I wish you could have been here Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, coif of dew Last Line: Tell him not to keep trying, tell him I've gone out Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness IF, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had I been, lost love, if you had loved me? Last Line: You will not find in gardens that are new. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of IF, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if the world were mine, love Last Line: No more, I think, shall I. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poverty IF I AM BUT THE WATER, by CHRISTOPHER LA FARGE Poem Source Last Line: It will be you that locked its power %and you that broke its seal Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of IF TEARS WERE PEARLS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If tears were pearls, I would have Last Line: That is my new sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Tears IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery ILLIMITABLE, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Parting love, far-fled content Last Line: Kiss me, and I will go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ILLUSTRATIONS FOR KATHLEEN O'MORE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love still I think that I see her once more-but alas! She has left Last Line: On kathleen & c &c &c Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness IN AN ALAMEDA FIELD, by ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Lost sappho's voice passed on the wind today Last Line: How could she know my heart last night had died? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of IN ANCIENT DECEMBER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ideal american Last Line: Singing singing? What am I singing? Subject(s): Americans; Forget-me-nots; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs IN THE BEAUTIFUL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still. Be still. Do not speak Last Line: Or stay—and be still! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness IN THE COUNTRY, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Said the gardenia, 'I am very white!' Last Line: But leave me her! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Revivals IN WINTER, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Winter; Love - Loss Of INCARNATE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day I heard you'd died, that day, toward evening, I was alone in the Last Line: Here, look at this. Hold this, feel this Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul INTO THE DARK, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: And when I stretch my hands into the darkness Last Line: And that I can never %again neglect you Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of INTROSPECTION, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you sent her back her letters? Have you given her back her ring? Last Line: The secret of love's persistency: I too have loved and lost! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ISAIAH: 63, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, heav'nly muse, what king, or mighty god' Last Line: Smiles at their arts, and all their force defies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality IT IS NOT, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: It is not all the same were precisely we are Last Line: Only simple people do not seek happiness Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 JA NULS HOMS PRIS NE IRA A RAISON, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forbecause a prisoner lies Last Line: But worse than all is loss of love Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JEHANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In garments gray of sleety rain Last Line: Where they had parted, long ago. Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Childhood JEMMY DAWSON, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to my mournful tale Last Line: So sad, so tender, yet so true. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 JILTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy done gone back on me Last Line: I sh'd like to know? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JULIANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Off! Off! Ye hounds! - in madness an ill death be your doom Last Line: While her moor lord beside her slept, the tears fell on his face Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JUST FRIENDS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the table endlessly rocking Last Line: If you look long enough Subject(s): Love - Loss Of KASHMIRI SONG, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale hands I love beside the shalimar Last Line: Crushing out life than waving me farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of KISS THE EYES OF PEACE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Kiss the eyes of peace, may it stream down Last Line: All. Too many blessings break a man apart Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Peace KIST (I.M. 14TH FEBRUARY 1975), by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: On that lovers' morning, our hearts chimed Last Line: Took on the wrinkled grain %of coffin wood Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Valentine's Day KNOWLEDGE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now there is no confusion in our love Last Line: These moons know nothing of. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Knowledge; Love - Loss Of L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Last Line: Sometimes these cogitations still amaze %the troubled midnight and the noon's repose Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LADY ALICE WAS SITTING IN HER BOWER-WINDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Death;love - Loss Of;man-woman Relationships; "dead, The;male-female Relations; LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Death overtook her Last Line: Than ever. ... Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The LAMENT OF JOSEPHINE, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empress! - what's to me the empty name! Last Line: Hath o'er their ruin leapt to liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 1. DURING THE LAST MONTHS, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: The woman must smile back at the face of death. Privately, she is unable Last Line: Moon with me, he says, meaning: you will remember this forever Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 2. BEFORE HE DIES, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: It is best to try in the morning. She makes her lips into fish and kisses Last Line: Love,' the angel says seductively. 'all love.' Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LAS! MORT QUI T'A FAIT SI HARDIE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death, you have made it your pleasure Last Line: Torment, sorrow, and pain Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of LAST GIFT, by FREDRICA KAY Poem Text First Line: They have laid me here on this windy hill Last Line: Thru the long grass overhead. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Last Line: Mouths open. Last words flown up into the trees Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Women LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LE ROI EST MORT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And shall I weep that love's no more Last Line: Can never rise again! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEANING INTO THE AFTERNOONS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets Last Line: Shedding blue tassels over the land Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LEAVING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark black line Last Line: Wet canvases . . . Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEAVING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark black line Last Line: Waiting for you. %I wanted to Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LEOLINE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the molten-golden moonlight Last Line: My lost love, leoline! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LET ME WALK ALONE WHERE BREAKS THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all the country-side Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude LET NO BIRD SING, by VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Tread softly here, upon this spot Last Line: Love died, and it was night. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LETHE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask for love, ah! No, Last Line: To sink in quiet seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTING GO, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: I loved you first the time I saw you last Last Line: That indispensable, improper fiction %of your unforgettable perfection Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LI FU-JEN, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Text First Line: The sound of her silk skirt has stopped Last Line: How slow she comes! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of; Winter LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Freedom comes. The prescient muse foretold Last Line: And heavenly freedom spread her golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Liberty LIFE LOOKS ON DEATH, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Tonight I sit alone with my dead love Last Line: In fright that wondrous life should lose itself. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE-HOOK, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Love: if I die don't take me to the cemetery Last Line: I will rise to watch you. I'll be the purple lilies Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LIGHT AS MY HEART WAS LONG AGO, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Light as my heart was long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LIKE THE SEA, KISSES, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Emblems mean nothing Last Line: Magical in the light, then they turn lifeless Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Romance LILI'S PARK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no menagerie, I trow Last Line: I must be free! Myself will force my freeing! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES ON THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother! O my mother! When thy spirit heavenward fled Last Line: Oh joy, we soon shall meet! Till then, my mother, fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARTING FROM A LADY, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is gone! The occasion for ever is past! Last Line: On delusion my raptures arose! Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation LISTEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lost you, I attract substitutes Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness LITANY, by CAROLYN CREEDON Poem Source First Line: Tom, will you let me love you in your restaurant? Last Line: Tom, richmond is so far away. How will I know how you love me? %I have left you. That is how you wil Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LITE PENDENTE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The leaves lie dead about my feet Last Line: Or art thou, as thou seemest, dead? Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE DAUGHTERS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is sweeter, sweet, than you? Last Line: "she is not dead till ye have murdered me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LITTLE WINDOWS, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From dusk to dawn, the worlds on high Last Line: I'll journey in a dream. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LOATHING HISTORY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Slows you %to start again Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Self LONE VESPERS, by BERT MOREHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Your love Last Line: Each day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LONG NIGHTS WHEN HE NEGLECTS ME - WHERE'S HE GONE?, by KU HSIUNG Poem Source Last Line: Maybe then you'd know how much I care! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the sadness of my days Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness LOOK ON THE PICTURE AND ON THIS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we once were wedded, - then I must be true Last Line: Will she sound our accusation in intolerable light Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love – Nature Of; Portraits; Memory; Death LORELEI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where the rhine pursues its track Last Line: Plunging - in the rhine she sank Subject(s): Drowning;love - Loss Of;magic;suicide LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er Last Line: I love you too, I love you too. Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise LOSER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed you, bride and lost, and went Last Line: You stagger against the wind Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I've lost my notebook. % I've lost a poem Last Line: I've lost my notebook. %I've lost a poem Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers LOST LAD, by AMY MAY ROGERS Poem Text First Line: The lad I love shall be as straight Last Line: "who always walked this way?" Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I play my sweet old airs Last Line: A woman as I was born! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE'S FLIGHT, by DONN BORING Poem Text First Line: I see you now, yes barely, far away Last Line: That came to hide your angel's flight. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOST THINGS, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Those little things we search for, find us - the misplaced key we unex Last Line: Combs, and yellowing photographs of us Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Survival LOUELLA WAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Louella wainie! Where are you Last Line: Louella wainie! Where are you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime LOVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You have not died, no Last Line: You are eternal, love %even as is the spring Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free Last Line: Or save thee from the swift decrees of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watcher, whose eyes are fever bright Last Line: For death's vast mystery grows clear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth Last Line: Can this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND GRIEF, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day Last Line: And love, pride purged, was chastened all his life. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE AND THE MOUNTAINS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He rode through bitter mountains Last Line: He cried: oh in these cold hills to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of LOVE AND THE SIERRA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He galloped over harsh sierra ground Last Line: He screamed: to die in these cold hills alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Relationships LOVE COME AND GONE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away; Last Line: Within, without the vassal heart—its reasoning, who knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE DEAD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morn with trembling I awoke Last Line: With but phantoms round me flitting! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE DISPOSED OF, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here goes love! Now cut him clear Last Line: Now that he is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LOVE HEROIC, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Companioned on the path you chose Last Line: Immortal in your life to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations LOVE IN EXILE I: 25, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake from troubled slumbers Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE IN EXILE I: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember ever, for my sake Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mdmory; Love - Loss Of LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LOVE IS DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard one cry out strongly, 'love is dead!' Last Line: Nay! Let him rest with death, the lord of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE IS DEAD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A form across my threshold lies Last Line: The only way love ever dies. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS FOR EVERMORE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I had thought to bury my love too deep for tears Last Line: In the heart of a woman by love forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE ITSELF DOES NOT MAKE A DISPLAY OF ITSELF, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But when you think you've met miss right Last Line: I guess I didn't realize the effect on her Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE KILL'D BY LACK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be warme; let me be fully fed Last Line: I shall dislike, what once I lov'd before. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that is dead and buried, yesterday Last Line: Was this to meet? Not so, we have not met. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Collinson, James (1825-1881); Love - Loss Of LOVE NOW, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will love me the day I lie dying Last Line: At the coldness of death? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE PLUMES HIS WINGS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love plumes his wings to fly away Last Line: And laughs to scorn our idle pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone, like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVE POEMS: 11, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caelia is gone, and now I sit Last Line: More grief in parting, but grow old and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WE HAD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love we had for one another is somewhere Last Line: That fits the face of grief, %at risk among others Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 3, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How is it possible Last Line: Now, am I nothing? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 4, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen oak still keeps its yellow leaves Last Line: Although I love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so I shall meet you Last Line: -- yesterday?) Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, do you remember still Last Line: Resolved, abandoned by us two! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Italians LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 7, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you love me not - I do not love you Last Line: And charm you like a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE: A MADRIGAL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love be dead Last Line: And died at length of a decline.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S ENDING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this, then, is love's ending. It is like Last Line: By passion's earthquake, loathes the name of love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S GHOST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love at end? How did he go? Last Line: This tyrant ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S PARTING, by MINUCHIHRI Poem Text First Line: O tentsman, haste, and strike the tent, I pray Last Line: "but now in love imperfect, well-a-way!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S PROUD FAREWELL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am too proud of loving thee, too proud Last Line: And laugh within thy breast. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S SLEEPLESSNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I can no more mine eyes to sleep compose Last Line: Would stop for aye if sever'd from its shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Sleeplessness LOVE'S SUICIDE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for me for that my love is dead! Last Line: Divinest harmonies. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-FREE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn Last Line: I am my lover's. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-LETTER-BURNING, by DANIEL HALL Poem Source First Line: The archivist in us shudders at such cold-blooded destruction of ... Last Line: A match is struck: it's done. The past %will shed some light, but never keep us warm Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE-LORN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LOVERS, by ANNE PORTER Poem Source First Line: I can still see Last Line: Than death or anger %a love began Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVERS' LEAP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In greece I found the place, though earth Last Line: And leap to find thee where thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seasons LOVES FAREWELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light hearted, careless, shall I take my way Last Line: With usurer's craft, more than myself to find. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LUCY TO RAVENSWOOD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, shall sweet roses scent the air Last Line: And I not trust in thee? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me? Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have felt for each other emotions soft Last Line: That never since then have we seen each other Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 31, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when I so long, so long had delay'd Last Line: Was the silliest far of my silliest actions. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 38, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my darling one has left me Last Line: Wellnigh breaks, I cannot weep. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 54, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When two fond lovers are parted Last Line: Too surely came by-and-by. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Tears LYRICS OF LOVE: 3, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet pigeon carrier upon my roof Last Line: Six feet of darkness 'neath the churchyard green. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LYRICS OF LOVE: 4, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Returned am I, my trusted sweetheart dead Last Line: But never taste the sweetness of the wine. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MA BELLE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dear heart! Since needs it must I go Last Line: He loved me well!' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MADCAP LOVE, by PAUL GUEST Poem Source First Line: I am archie, made flesh, if ink can be Last Line: My home and heart, bones and bars, broken Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, by what rite shall I upbraid Last Line: No slumber to my pain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL, by LUIS MARTIN DE LA PLAZA Poem Source First Line: On the green margin of the land Last Line: Leapt in the water to escape the fire Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words get to him now. They leap out of Last Line: Everything means something else Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning MANATON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it's manaton, little manaton, high over the moor Last Line: For the want of her and manaton, and the long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MARIA, THE VILLAGE GIRL, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a pleasant village, in a lone Last Line: Could trace her, through the silent wood withdrew. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness MARIAN/'CHAMA' IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Now we separate %branching letting go of pine cone Last Line: I have grown old and snowblind Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Passion; Romance MARRIAGE A LA MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a foolish marriage vow Last Line: Twas pleasure first made in an oath. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: Yes, come to my arms, little doves of iron Last Line: Lodged within the contents of my heart Subject(s): Angels; Death; Doves; Love - Loss Of MARY LEE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails ye, bonnie mary lee? Last Line: Kin' jamie's faithfu' wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MASOCHIST, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black-eyed lover broke my back Last Line: As if they never called you mine, %mine, mine Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MAUD MULLER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller on a summer's day / raked the meadow sweet with hay Last Line: Roll the stone from its grave away! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Social Classes; Caste MAUREEN OGE, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh maureen oge across the foam Last Line: The walls are lonesome for your clothes. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides Last Line: Vigilant. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness ME IN PARADISE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Maid marjory sits at the castle gate Last Line: And men will say they were true lovers sweet Subject(s): Grief;love - Loss Of; Sorrow;sadness MELILOT, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the house is the millet plot Last Line: All but the smell of the white melilot. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Plants; Planting; Planters MEMENTO MORI, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, could I but once more have gazed into Last Line: Oh, could I but once more into thine eyes have gazed! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMENTOS, I, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMENTOS, I, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Last Line: I will find that it's still there Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with me? So saith Last Line: Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMORIES, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the vale I walk Last Line: In the heart of dying marigold. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORIES, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou, louise, forgotten yet Last Line: And I alone remember yet! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations MEMORIES, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful and strange and sweet Last Line: My heart breaks at their tugging mild. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory MEMORY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, once lived in arcady Last Line: A little while! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMORY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light / of the white night Last Line: Might still. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery MEMORY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When first we quaffed love's jeweled cup Last Line: The sunset of the days of old. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory 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 METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions MICHELANGELO HOMEBOY, BLUE, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: For years they sat Last Line: Intention Subject(s): Art And Artists; Love - Loss Of MID-MAY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hand clamped to desk, / and eyes on task undone Last Line: When pan is at the door? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery MILLAIS'S 'HUGUENOTS', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Your fav'rite picture rises up before me Last Line: Is hushed in deepest calm Subject(s): "love - Loss Of;mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847);millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); MISSING YOU, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Susan, susan I am missing you Last Line: And susan, susan I am missing you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of MOON'S WALTZING ALONE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In deserted kitchens Last Line: Only their love, like a thing never done, burns through %into morning Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, JULY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haze. Three student violists boarding Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MOSTLY SKY, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We eat lunch next to massive windows Last Line: A fiddle string, taut enough and waiting Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Saint Kilda (scotland) MOUNTAIN STREAM, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I am like this stream Last Line: And yet %the same Subject(s): Brooks; Grief; Love - Loss Of MOVEMENT, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We crawl, we eat. Like commas Last Line: Laying wings down gently over the land Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of MOVEMENT SONG, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Relationships; Love - Loss Of MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Easter is coming, and I without him Last Line: My heart is cruelly grieving for him Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MUNDI VICTIMA: 6, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all over, I am left alone Last Line: And dearest love works most the work of hate. Subject(s): Hate; Love - Loss Of MY BABY'S GONE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I paw at you Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of MY BOAT, CUT, by KUJI Poem Source First Line: My boat, cut from tallest pine Last Line: Back into dark rip tides Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Love - Loss Of; Tides 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 CONNOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Weary's on money - and weary's on wealth Last Line: My heart's in the grave with my cushla machree Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY EARTHLY LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No dim and dreamy ghost I sing Last Line: And only feed on bitter breath. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness MY JOY HAS FALLEN IN THE GRASS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My joy has fallen in the grass, good people of the plain, fortunate Last Line: Fallen in the grass, help me to find it again. Subject(s): Grass; Happiness; Love - Loss Of; Joy; Delight MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away Last Line: A year and a day! Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy MY LOST LOVE, by KATE VAN HORSSEN MEYLINK Poem Text First Line: My dear lost love passed by last night Last Line: In the wailing of the wind. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Parting MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery MY LOVE DIED, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: My love died she left but said nothing to me Last Line: But he also says nothing Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of MY LOVE, WHY DO YOU HATE ME NOW?, by HABBA KHATUN Poem Source First Line: Which rival wife has turned you from me? Last Line: My love, why do you hate me now? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY PICNIC WITH LOLITA, by JACK(+1) CONWAY Poem Source First Line: I brought the cherries Last Line: And wish I could have died at my picnic, with lolita, %by lightning, instead Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets MY SONG, by PAULINE TYSON STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: My love is dead, and mystic plaints Last Line: My song a dirge. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MY THOUGHTS GO FORTH TO THE ABIDING PLACE, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I did believe I was in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NAME FOR GRIEF, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Tell me any, any, tell me your name for grief Last Line: Of a young girl shakes in the withered crone. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Names; Sorrow; Sadness NANNY TO BESSY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven long winters departed Last Line: And thrice — but ah, let me refrain. Subject(s): Duplicity; Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Shame; Deceit NEUTRAL TONES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by a pond that winter day Last Line: And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Winter NEW LOVE AND OLD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my heart the old love Last Line: Or to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NEW SPRING: 34, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter, sent to prove me Last Line: Far otherwise we act. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NIGHT POEMS: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in a still peace, in clear Last Line: Endured by all, breathed by how few! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NIGHTINGALE, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rose looks out in the valley Last Line: Sings his song of woe Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Love - Loss Of NIGHTINGALE'S SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A song in my heart pipes ever and ever Last Line: My own! My own! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightingales; Solitude; Loneliness NINE SENTIMENTS (IX), by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old book on the poisons Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN SLAIN BY APOLLO, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring Last Line: "but from the marble steal the silent tears." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paintings And Painters; Wilson, Richard (1714-1782) NO MORE PRINCESS, by ERICKA PAZCOGUIN Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning in my cold bed, and you were gone Last Line: Cool pearls of sorrow resting stark around my throat Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NOCTURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whispering voice of the modest night Last Line: The face of my love again—at last? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I knew that it could not last Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NOCTURNE OF THE STATUE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: Dreaming, dreaming the night, the street, the stairway Last Line: Till hearing it say, I am sick to death of dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Mourning NONSENSE RHYMES: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Little maiden dressed in mourning Last Line: "weep not, here am I" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;nonsense NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NOW AND THEN, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love will make the leal heart ache Last Line: She -- passes babe-in-arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Transience; Impermanence NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding sorrow / consumeth my sad heart! Last Line: This one day! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The OBITUARY, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: We two in w.2 Last Line: Seems silly now really Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Love - Loss Of OCTAVIO PAZ ADDRESSES MARIE-JOSE, by ANTHONY SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Body of the world which I taste Last Line: The one without wings, and the other on fire Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of ODE TO NEPTUNE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While raging tempests shake the shore Last Line: Not give my wishes to the empty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea; Ocean ODES IV, 1. TO VENUS FOR LIGURINUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O venus, why are you renewing Last Line: You, cruel one! Through waves whirling, swirling Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) OF COURSE, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS Poem Text First Line: A merry shepherd lad was jock Last Line: Of course! Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of OLD AMONTILLADO, by M. E. W. G. Poem Text First Line: Fill my wine-glass brimming high Last Line: M. E. W. G. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Love - Loss Of; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse OLD MOUNTAIN, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Old mountain, here you are still Last Line: Coming to me, going away Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Love - Loss Of ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land Last Line: May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON FANNY GODWIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice did quiver as we parted Last Line: This word is all too wide for thee. Subject(s): Godwin, Fanny (d. 1816); Love; Love - Loss Of; Suicide ON FRIENDSHIP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let amictia in her ample reign Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON IMAGINATION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy various works, imperial queen, we see Last Line: Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON MESSRS HUSSEY AND COFFIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did fear and danger so perplex you mind Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON READING SOME VERSES ENTITLED 'A FAREWELL TO LOVE', by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Stern indeed must be that minstrel's heart Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ON RECOLLECTION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mneme begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine Last Line: Feels himself shelter'd from the wrath divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON REVISITING CINTRA AFTER THE DEATH OF CATARINA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apparel of green woods and meadows gay Last Line: Sere with herb that suits the %broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Mourning ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON SHARING A HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Screw the fate that makes you share a man Last Line: I think I would have lived alone. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Polygamy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deed perfidious, and the hero's fate Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Lee, Henry (light-horse Harry); Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF GREAT PROMISE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night Last Line: And trace him to the bosom of his god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dark abodes to fair etherial light Last Line: Shall join your happy babe to part no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF CATARINA DE ATTAYDA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those charming eyes within whose starry Last Line: Sighed o'er the ruin, and returned to %heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory ON THE DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL MARSHALL, 1771, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade Last Line: The spouse, the sire, the universal friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOOSTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this the muse rich consolation draws Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF HER BODY, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a thought breaking the granite heart Last Line: Plucking the flowers of the abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ON THE DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF MR. SNIDER MURDER'D BY RICHARDSON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heavens eternal court it was decreed Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV'D. DR. SEWALL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er yet the morning heav'd its orient head Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. SEWELL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread Last Line: "when the same graces in our bosoms thrive." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne Last Line: Till life divine re-animates his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): An Elegaic Poem Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) ON VIRTUE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive Last Line: O thou, enthron'd with cherubs in the realms of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ONCE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a woodcutter Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings ONCE WE PLAYED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we played at love together Last Line: One lies lonely in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Last Line: Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning ONE LOVE STORY, EIGHT TAKES, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONE NIGHT, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: If only sleep would come as it has come Last Line: Ah, that which I have lost, only I know Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Thought ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling? Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lon- (sounds like 'lawng') on-on-ong Last Line: Reach up now %reach reach Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing And Writers ONE YEAR AFTER: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not once in all our days of poignant love Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of ONE YEAR AFTER: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ONLY A WOMAN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, the truth's out. I'll grasp it like a snake Last Line: The other woman was less true than I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Women OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness ORIGINS OF MILK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Mushrooms grow in my thighs Last Line: I long to be an apple tree standing in your garden Subject(s): Introspection; Love - Loss Of; Milk ORISON, by RUTH JEFFERY Poem Text First Line: If only dreams came true, my dear Last Line: When love supplants the sabre. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Patriotism; Soldiers OUR PHOTOGRAPH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She played me false, but that's not why Last Line: To leave my boots. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Variant Title(s): On Photographs Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Photography & Photographers OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUTGROWN, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nay, you wrong her, my friend, she's not fickle Last Line: As plainly, perhaps, and as bluntly, as I might in our earlier youth. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of OUTSIDE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dead thing mashed into the street Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The OZONE AVENUE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These days I love to dream Last Line: Flicking volcanic ash off a cigarette. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Separation; Isolation PAL OF MY HEART, by JULIA A. BRAND Poem Text First Line: Pal of my heart, need we to part Last Line: In my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations PALM-TREE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: When comes the hour I long for Last Line: Returning to the tree Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Silence PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4, LINES 639-654, by LESLIE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: It's all the same to me what time it is Last Line: When you are not around, just leaves me flat. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Milton, John (1608-1674); Separation; Isolation; Paradise PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life closed twice before its close Last Line: And all we need of hell. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness PARTING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis you not I, have chosen. Love, go free! Last Line: I died when died my faith in that dear dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PASSIONS PAST, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were I a boy, with a boy's heart-beat Last Line: "ay, forevermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PAST DAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and gone, the days we had together Last Line: Cliffs and downs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Roundels; Sea; Ocean PATIENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I put her letter by, because Last Line: And wait in patience yet awhile. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Waiting PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PENDULUM, by WILLIAM DALZIELL TRADER Poem Text First Line: Until you came my heart lay cold and merciless Last Line: Because the bell is gone -- the clock is incomplete. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: DEDICATION, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved bride, whom my dear mother blessed Last Line: In that far east -- the lotus-land of earth. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PERHAPS, by CHRISTIE LUND COLES Poem Text First Line: Perhaps we'll meet someday, in some far year Last Line: The other's sudden sense of loneliness. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PHILIS'S REPLY TO THE ANSWER ... BY THE GENTLEMAN IN NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one bright moment, heavenly goddess! Shine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PITY, by FLORA WARREN BROWN Poem Text First Line: It would not hurt me quite as much Last Line: Lest they might pierce the joy in you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity PITY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They never saw my lover's face Last Line: Men who have never seen god's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PLEASE DON'T LEAVE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I lay right down beside her Last Line: Right here by my side Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of POEM FOR DOROTHY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No shape in darkness single stands Last Line: From ruin moving amends our peace Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory POLITICS OF THE BISEXUAL DEEP FRY, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said: my woman left me Last Line: Maybe we could work something out Subject(s): Love - Loss Of POOR ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware!' you bird now in glee on the bough Last Line: But when will the best beware? Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of; Weariness; Fatigue PRENUPTIAL, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Lying in bed with you, not sleeping -sleep Last Line: Our little life is rounded with a sleep Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of PREPARE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you write me a poem that will prepare me for your death?' you said Last Line: Reading now. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The PRIMUM MOBILE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou art gone, then all the rest will go Last Line: Out-footing death to over-take thy face. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of PRISON NIGHTFALL, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night descends Last Line: They cannot blind the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners PROCLAMATION OF KING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the feet of don henrique now king pedro dead is lying Last Line: Not one remains to cry to god, 'our lord lies murdered here!' Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The QUAG-HOLE, by WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: He waited and, as he waited, grew less eager Last Line: And marched to beat the silence through the wood. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of 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 QUIS DESIDERIO, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Dark and vast are thine outer walls, / o king of light! Last Line: She of the silvered, even-parted hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RAGE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In a flash %I am out of the car Last Line: Bring her back to me Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of RAIN, by VERNONA CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Soft lips I've known Last Line: And shall not love again. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: After he realized helen would not come that day, he struggled Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together? Last Line: My lone canoe and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness REACHING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Your eyes close Last Line: Susan, where are you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of RECALL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What call may draw thee back again Last Line: As they through love the call of death? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RECONCILIATION, by HERMAN ASARNOW Poem Source First Line: Translating from the spanish Last Line: Irreconcilable differences, %the death of a love Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Translating And Interpreting RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past RELUCTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out through the fields and the woods Last Line: Of a love or a season? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of REMEMBER, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember / when we ended Subject(s): Love - Loss Of REMEMBRANCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee! Last Line: How could I seek the empty world again? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season comes when first we met Last Line: And tears the fading vision close! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REMEMBRANCE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love was with me yesterday- Last Line: "love was with me yesterday!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RENEGADE BELIEVER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: At times %I still remember you Last Line: I've let you down %and the last embrace %and the breeze that%finally blew into my eyes %convinced me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory RENOUNCEMENT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong Last Line: I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of RENUNCIATION, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations REQUIEM, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: Oh, cedars, guard him well, ye sentinels, for near ye Last Line: As after sunset, earth, her lord's warm rays. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones RESIGNATION (2), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could resign that eye of blue Last Line: To -- do without you altogether. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): To Cloe Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women RETROSPECTIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night she will dance at the palace Last Line: With fresh wild-flowers in her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Memory; Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness REVERBERATION, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the old house of life I lie alone Last Line: Of my heart's forest a far horn sounds drowsily . . . Subject(s): Dust; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness REVERIES, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The early autumn night descends; the storm Last Line: Which once I kissed, another kisses now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of RHYMES: 52, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great waves, crashing on desert shores Last Line: Take, in pity! - I fear to stay %alone with misery Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Poetry And Poets ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships ROGER AND DOLLY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young roger came tapping at dolly's window Last Line: Mumpaty, mumpaty, mump. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting ROMANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young Last Line: He has been dead the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Romance ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ROOM 301, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Clip-clop. That's how %a life ends Subject(s): Brides; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSE AND MURRAY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the movie, when the lights come up Last Line: "drew a heart and wrote, ""I'd die for you." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Loss Of ROSE AYLMER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah what avails the sceptered race Last Line: I consecrate to thee. Subject(s): Aylmer, Rose Whitworth (1779-1800); Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ROSEMARY, by PERCY LOVEDAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, night sublime, too brief, when we two stood Last Line: We still remember. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting ROSES OF MY ROSE TREE, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: Within the courtyard of my home Last Line: A myriad roses white Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses ROSINA ALCONA TO JULIUS BRENZAIDA', by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Living long is containing Last Line: The crossways fade; the freeway rushes forward. %'these days obscure but cannot do thee wrong' Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Love - Loss Of RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness SAD ST. JOHN'S EVE, by MARTA PESSARRODONA Poem Source First Line: We didn't jump even the last bonfire Last Line: We're already burned Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SAILING BEYOND SEAS (OLD STYLE), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought the stars were blinking bright Last Line: Did mourn, and mourn, and mourn. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALAMANCA, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall grove of towers that as he goes down Last Line: In thy tongue of eternal herald tell what I have been Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SAND DUNES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: The winds of chance that picked us up Last Line: Conformant to a chance wind's will. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Wind SAPPHIC ODE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gracious dweller of the woodland green Last Line: Shatter thy pinions! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SCARABAEUS, by ELIZABETH SHAW MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: The lady was white as ivory Last Line: Split wide for passion's sake. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Murder SCHATTEN KUSSE, SCHATTEN LIEBE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow kisses, shadow love Last Line: Lamps once blazing with kisses Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude SECOND LOVE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So surely is she mine,' you say, and turn Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SECOND THOUGHTS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were here, ah foolish then Last Line: You are no longer here. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Separation; Isolation SEDGE SONGS: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the west the sun departing Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight SEEING OFF THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have sworn by the veil Last Line: For four men to carry her to the altar Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers SEER, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Even in crowded mart Last Line: And solacing his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness SEPARATION, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wandered down, at dawn of day Last Line: Where one deep shadow wraps it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SERENADE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: I was he that came in pain and trouble Last Line: Thus to love thee more and better still! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship SERENADE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While my lady sleepeth Last Line: Dreams bright and pure as these Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Romance SERENADE AT NOONDAY, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love you, no, nor all your beauty Last Line: Haunting your silence. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 1. THE HAPPENING, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: It had to be. She from his weariness Last Line: To no avail, what then? It had to be. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SHE NO LONGER LOVES HIM, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: I'll go no more on fancy flights Last Line: Are things I do not wish to own, %because her heart is turned to stone Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SINCE WE PARTED, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since we parted yester eve Last Line: Than I loved thee, love, before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Love - Loss Of; Parting SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SIXTEENTH KIND OF FEAR, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Who was it moving the curtain then? Last Line: Only the future, love, coming and going Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude SLEEP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A reason's powers by day our god disclose Last Line: Our god forgetting, by our god forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SNOW ON HER LIPS, by JAIME KLEIMAN Poem Source First Line: The only eyes who meet mine on the street belong to Last Line: Fire in her gloveless hands Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of SNOW QUEEN, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Ever since she discovered the mirror Last Line: And go on living as before Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SNOW-FLAKE, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: To soothe my pain because thou canst not love me Last Line: Whose burning lava-depths beneath it spread! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of SO PROUD, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were proud Last Line: How hard this must have been for you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Pride SO WE'LL GO NO MORE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SOMETHING IN THE SPRING MUD, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: There must be something in the spring mud that wants to set us free Last Line: In the still, bare branches Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SOMETHING LIKE AN ARIA, by STEVEN BARZA Poem Source First Line: All through the springtime afternoon Last Line: For the touch and love of a woman who wanders Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of SOMETHING THAT SHROUDS ITSELF, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Twelve months ago, on new year's eve Last Line: To all of manhattan coming ashore in the dark Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse Last Line: Yet out of that I have written these songs.) Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets SONATINA, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The princess is sad. What ails the princess? Last Line: To kindle your lips with a kiss of true love! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my heart is stirring lightly Last Line: Back to its abandoned nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a golden day Last Line: Ne'er to whole again, %my heart lies broken Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fly not, pleasure, pleasant-hated pleasure Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love? / is it for men to choose Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad bird, I do bewail thee, / thy song it was so sweet Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou take me for thy slave Last Line: For I love thee as no other man can love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilac and gold and green! Last Line: And our weeping skies shall once more be blue. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her whose name Last Line: To be no less to me my sweetest soul and friend. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known you-oh, I had known you! Last Line: Prophet and priest, your poet for all time. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have let the beauty of the day go over Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think no more of me, / if we needs must part Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with the summer leaves, love, to my grave Last Line: The love I loved you with and left unsaid. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I forget thee! How shall I forget thee! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we had met when leaves were green Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love in the summer hills, / with youth to mock at ills Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me a little, love me as thou wilt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for a day of spring, / a day of flowers and folly Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red, red gold, a kingdom's ransom, child Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou art happy, thou dear heart of pleasure Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by C. KATHLEEN CARMAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep, o, my darling, sleep Last Line: O, wake, my darling, wake. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG (13), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should thy love die Last Line: Bury it, bury it, bury it where it was born. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG (3), by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must silence, with words of cold reason Last Line: I may wish to use them again! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span Last Line: My true love to my dying day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG FOR JEANNIE, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: This is a song for you about you Last Line: Dance, little flower of the womb, dance now! Subject(s): Jazz; Love - Loss Of; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All are sleeping, my sad heart Last Line: All are sleeping, thou art not Subject(s): Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Passion SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The little brown maid wailing sore Last Line: Out in the olive grove %and the branches tremble above Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning SONG IN A MINOR KEY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place I know where the birds swing low, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 OF PARTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say farewell, and let me go Last Line: Say farewell, and let me go. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Parting SONG OF THE PINES, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O pines,o brothers of the earth and air Last Line: From far away, and towards the future goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG TO A VIOL, FR. FUIMUS TROES, by JASPER FISHER Poem Text First Line: So the silver-feathered swan Last Line: When my heart-strings are all broke? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Violas SONG, FR. THE LOVER'S PROGRESS, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu fond love, farewell you wanton powers Last Line: Fond love declines, this heavenly love grows higher. Variant Title(s): The Farewell To Love Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Last Line: You left behind. I hold you %there Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships SONGS OF THE WEST: THE CROWS FLY BY NIGHT (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hateful old crow! Last Line: And my love went off in the dark Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Love - Loss Of SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That once she lent it. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise SONGS: 6. THE WEARY MOON GOES DOWN INTO THE WEST, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Wilt thou not also rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONGS: 7. I KNOW THEE, O THOU WAILING WIND!, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass by and tread them under foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Passion SONGS: 9. WHETHER SLEEPING, WHETHER WAKING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lovers lean and mock them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Paradise SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus ends my love, but this doth grieve me most Last Line: It be a temple, but without a saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thus I sin, repent, and sin again Last Line: Whilst I do talk with my creator thus. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Innumerable beauties, thou white haire Last Line: Thou seemest, wreath'd by some immortal hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a rived tree, that stands beside the grave Last Line: Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Fear; Floods; Love - Loss Of SONNET TO MANON: HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this day forth I lead another life Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET: HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LIVE IS DEAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is dead, dead and in spite of me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Lament SONNET: IN ANNIVERSARIO MORTIS.1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can bring no tribute of fresh tears Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SONNET: 102, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming Last Line: Because I would not dull you with my song. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 24, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you, that at this moment are to me Last Line: The wind whereon its petals shall be laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 29, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me not because the light of day Last Line: Pity me that the heart is slow to learn %what the swift mind beholds at every turn Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Da Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 31, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word Last Line: I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNET: 32, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a wound that never will heal, I know Last Line: Between my ribs forever of hot pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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: 42, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Last Line: A little while, that in me sings no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "what Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why""; Subject(s): Aging; Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 7, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs Last Line: My heart still feels the weight of that remembered chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: 76. FATAL INTERVIEW: 7, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is my sister, and how deep in love Last Line: Watches beside me in this windy place. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Love - Loss Of SONNET: AT MY WORD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ever said that I could pay high toll Last Line: Since this you will, my heart must grant you this! Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SONNET: FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For freedom's sake, farewell. I would not fret you Last Line: "one kiss? -- our last. Goodbye, -- ""for freedom's sake." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SONNET: TO ONE WHOM HE HAD LOVED TOO LONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I cling to thee, sad love? Too long Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SORROW, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: This divine october morning Last Line: To feel the sea's oblivion forever Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUL-SHADOWS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grass, with drops like diamonds bright Last Line: To none dare I make moan. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness SOUP, by ELISABETH STEVENS Poem Source First Line: The night of the day Last Line: Forming and breaking %forming and breaking Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Soup SOUTH OF THE GREAT SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love is living Last Line: And then it too wil know Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 113, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was taken to prison Last Line: It was sentenced to death Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 159, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart breaks Last Line: And that you are dead for me Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 52, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You say you do not love her Last Line: Over her path Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 70, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The love you once had for me Last Line: Branch and stem it took away Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 73, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was at the foot of the almond tree Last Line: A stranger came and took it Subject(s): Competition; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 79, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Had I known how false Last Line: So narrow a heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 85, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good bye, and go with god Last Line: At the spring of oblivion Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of SPIRAL IN VERMILLION; AFTER HUNDERTWASSER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake Last Line: You have arrived. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Loss Of; Women SPIRIT, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I watched her Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of SPIRIT BRIDAL, by JESSIE STORRS FERRIS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps within a sheltered marbled close Last Line: Beneath the moon to-night? Subject(s): Brides; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND CHRIST, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where hidest thou from me Last Line: The cavalry rode by %descending where they saw the waters lie Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPIRITUAL WEDDING, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: You are not with me in fleeting moments Last Line: And I love you as one loves a small and lifeless bird Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPOILS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is over and you march for home Last Line: For fear they burn a hole through two-foot steel Variant Title(s): The Spoils Of Lov Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; War SPRING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When a song is in the wind Last Line: When a song is in the wind. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Spring; Loneliness ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that each feather'd chorister doth sing Last Line: Nor search the grave for my lost valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day STANZAS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a bitter pang for love removed Last Line: Of the cold tomb, and the long grass for ever! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of STATIC, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Well, old flame, the fire's out Last Line: The blankets crackle with bright blue sparks Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Night STEADFASTNESS; THE LOVER BESEECHETH HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not yet the tried intent Last Line: Forget not this. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Supplication;song: 65 Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Love - Loss Of; Faithfulness; Constancy STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your letter arrived I left the oven on Last Line: All in shadow that I must bathe and dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation STILLNESS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: It is especially strong Last Line: The spirit is among us %now Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness STREETS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: Loves that ended long ago Last Line: Because you don't remember whose faces %appear in the darkness behind the windows Subject(s): Love - Loss Of SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter SURRENDER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne Last Line: My once-imperial soul! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SURRENDER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hard I strove to crowd you from my heart Last Line: Come, if you will, although you bring me pain! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of 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 SYMBOLIC, by DAVID WILSHIRE Poem Text First Line: The black night...Dark and dreary Last Line: Too...Soon, we know ... 'tis day! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THAT CRY, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Something in that cry Last Line: They were the very last words you uttered Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Crying; Love - Loss Of THE ACQUIRED ART, by ANNIE HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: I will forget that I have loved him Last Line: Once you learn how it is done. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 12. PRELUDE: THE MARRIED LOVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, having won her, do I woo Last Line: And more to-day than yesterday. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ANGEL OF MADEIRA, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Each eve I lie a-musing on madeira's hills Last Line: To awake o'er the myrtle grave time alone has lent. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; 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 ANSWER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the way of sleep, the timeless shore Last Line: And then the eternal silence makes reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE BARRIER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not gaze at them although Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of THE BOAST, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not need you now! Thus do I end Last Line: "I do not need you now!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE BOND, by JO HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: Bedizened, roughed, with henna-streaked scant tresses Last Line: The gigolo alone broke down and cried. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships THE BRIDEGROOM OF BEAUTY: THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM'S SONG, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tree beside the river Last Line: Runs from my embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CHALLENGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost quell in thy victorious tide Last Line: The radiant silence of my sleepless pain. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE CHARM IS GONE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not wish to see his face Last Line: It can be charmed no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CHIEF AMONG TEN THOUSAND (SONG OF SOLOMON), by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold thou art all fair, my love Last Line: And eat his fruits of love. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Heaven; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Paradise; Judaism THE CHURCHYARD ON THE SANDS, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love lies in the gates of foam Last Line: Until I rest by thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CLEARING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog and I push through the ring Last Line: Is wait for you to come back to me Subject(s): Dogs; Love - Loss Of THE COMPLAINT OF LISA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no woman living that draws breath Last Line: Ere day be done, to seek the sunflower. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sun; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE DAMSEL OF MOBILE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met thee in the summer time Last Line: Darling damsel of mobile! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Poor faded flower, / thy pale dead form hath caused the tears to start Last Line: For this poor withered thing! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Past THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD LETTER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And can it be? Ah, yes, I see Last Line: The strongest human passion! Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of THE DEAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is so long when a man is Last Line: That wants to fly back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Time; Dead, The THE DEMON LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o where have you been, my long, long love" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Devil;love - Loss Of;suicide;unfaithfulness; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy THE DEPTH OF LOVE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because he brought no tears to her dear Last Line: Can never sound our sea. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE DESERTED LOVER CONSOLETH HIMSELF ..., by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divers doth use, as I have heard and know Last Line: That often change doth please a woman's mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE DESERTER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I know not why or whence he came Last Line: The house where faith is dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE DISSOLUTION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is dead; and all which die Last Line: A latter bullet may o'rtake, the pouder being more. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When awful darkness and silence reign Last Line: The dong with a luminous nose! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nonsense; Noses THE DREAM, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were here to-night, o my dead love Last Line: In silence down the shadowy stream of life. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE END OF THE EPISODE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulge no more may we Last Line: Than thoroughfares of stones. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FLIGHT OF LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lamp is shattered Last Line: When leaves fall and cold winds come. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE FORSAKEN MAID (1), by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, fickle man, and teach the moon to change Last Line: And make the cordage of his heart to crack. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE FORSAKEN MAID (2), by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know, falsest man, as my love was Last Line: Attain'd, come then, and I'll scorn thee. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND (NEW WORDS TO AN OLD AIR), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sweet regret - (the dearest thing that yesterday has left us) Last Line: So she may lean upon my love, the girl I left behind me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She watched the blaze Last Line: ...I toddled home! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are one with all the dead, since she is gone Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Beauty THE GRAY BROTHER; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he was saying the high, high mass Last Line: Did that gray brother lay. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Vengeance THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Variant Title(s): Donal Og Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief" Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!" Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids THE HEART ENTIRE, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1580-1630) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst thou love me, and yet doubt Last Line: Love being only soul to both. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of THE HEART FLED AGAIN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False, foolish heart! Didst thou not say Last Line: Without thee, then without a mistris thou. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the heart grieve on Last Line: Across its own oblivion? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours! Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 49. WILLOWWOOD (1), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with love upon a woodside well Last Line: Bubbled with brimming kisses at my mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 50. WILLOWWOOD (2), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now love sang: but his was such a song Last Line: And still love sang, and what he sang was this:-- Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 51. WILLOWWOOD (3), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, ye, all ye, that walk in willowwood Last Line: "that willowwood should hold her wandering!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 52. WILLOWWOOD (4), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sang he: and as meeting rose and rose Last Line: Till both our heads were in his aureole. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 53. WITHOUT HER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of her glass without her? The blank gray Last Line: Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE ISLAND OF DREAMS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis a close-shelter'd island-the island of dreams! Last Line: Where hearts that are broken, again are made blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE JILTED LOVER TO HIS MOTHER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You needn't pray for me, old lady, I don't want no one's prayer Last Line: For if I catch them two together, by hell! I'll swing for the pair of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mothers THE KISS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole into the secret room Last Line: Stood sovereign. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Watch no more the twinkling stars Last Line: "to prove myself, sweet lady, thine." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well! Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAMENTATION OF BALVA THE MONK, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balva the old monk I am called: when I was young, balva honeymouth Last Line: "and a voice that whispered ""balva honeymouth, drink, I am thy wine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Monks THE LAST TRYST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cowbells wander through the woods Last Line: And find each other in god's sight. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LAST WISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since all that I can ever do for thee Last Line: The all-endured this nothing-done costs me. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE LAST WORDS, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if he ever should come back Last Line: Do not let him weep. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LIFT DESCENDING, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: The lift descending took my love from me Last Line: And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE LOSER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed you, bride and lost, and went Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory THE LOSS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet ere I go Last Line: For love from sympathy doth flow. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 60, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chilled through, I wake up Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale brows, still hands and dim hair Last Line: She has gone weeping away. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Aedh Laments The Loss Of Love Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE MAID OF NEIDPATH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovers' eyes are sharp to see Last Line: Which told her heart was broken. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE MAID'S LAMENT; ELIZABETHAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone Last Line: And, o, pray too for me! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE MEANING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It seemed to me the night she died Last Line: Her spirit passed to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise THE MINER OF PERU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that vast realm, where down the rivers wash Last Line: Beside the cherish'd grave of him she loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Nature; Dead, The THE MOURNING LOVER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a noble form, which oft I marked Last Line: That smile which in the court of heaven doth beam. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE NEGRO GIRL, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark was the dawn, and o'er the deep Last Line: And, with her heart's true love, plung'd in a wat'ry grave. Subject(s): Blacks; Love - Loss Of; Slavery; Serfs THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down where the cedars are bending Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PARTING OF DECOURCY AND WILHELMINE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Lo! Enthroned on golden clouds Last Line: Lay the corpse of wilhelmine Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PASSER-BY, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Text First Line: I have seen the shattering of shells Last Line: From the shattering of hearts. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PASSER-BY (L.H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He used to pass, well-trimmed and brushed Last Line: And disappear! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PAST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the songs that maids sang in times past Last Line: God, what have you done with their love! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Past; Bereavement THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PRINT OF YOUR HAND, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth's full of snow Last Line: The print of your hand on my scarf still. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting THE PURSUIT, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: I had visited her often Last Line: Found it bitter, and forgot her. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE QUARREL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not me persuade Last Line: Ah! That's the way. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE QUEEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her many years ago, my gladness and my grief Last Line: Ni houlihan, ni houlihan, she came a splendid queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE REJECTED WIFE, by YUAN-TI Poem Text First Line: Entering the hall, she meets the new wife Last Line: That her present pain will never come to an end. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely! Last Line: Though my poor heart should break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE ROOM, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that my heart is empty Last Line: Since love has died? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE ROSE HAS LEFT THE GARDEN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose has left the garden Last Line: Still in her death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The THE SACRIFICE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Pale lips that trembled under mine Last Line: Repay to her! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE SAME OLD STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old story told again Last Line: "till ""time shall be no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE SCEPTER OF THE DEAD, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I would achieve-through long trails of purpose Last Line: Will shrink my soul with fear ... And I am bound. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind THE SEARCH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh!Where are you going to, my fine darling Last Line: And you may call a thousand years he'll never hear you call! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE SINGER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: She sang with the voice of an angel Last Line: "I sing for him alone." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we break the chancel of the dead? Last Line: Of loves and passions that long time have set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Passion; Dead, The; Bereavement THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He takes his leave,-and all her sun of life Last Line: Love's plaint alone the brooding silence grieves. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou who fashion'd her so beautiful Last Line: Save, lord, I may not—till thou cleansest me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness THE STILLED VOICE, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain in my garden Last Line: Of a moan. ... Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The THE STORY OF BROTHER PAUL (SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY FRANK DICKSEE), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, you question me if I Last Line: I sleep at last, beneath the sod! Subject(s): Dicksee, Sir Frank (1853-1928); Love - Loss Of; Monks; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE STRAYED LOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost the way to sylvia's heart Last Line: Then, having found it, dwell there. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THE STREET, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, walking the streets with me tonight? Last Line: O god! I had forgotten—! The street is between us. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Separation; Isolation THE SUSPICION UPON HIS OVER-MUCH FAMILIARITY WITH GENTEWOMAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must we part, because some say Last Line: From fames black lips, as you from me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE TAVERN, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the tavern of my heart Last Line: None will come forevermore. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs 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 TOPMOST BOUGH, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Don't you love me now Last Line: God, then, I'll forget you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE TORN LETTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tore your letter into strips Last Line: But that, thank god, you do not know. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of THE UNFORGOTTEN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rested by the broken brook Last Line: As I recall the blue? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brooks; Love - Loss Of; Streams; Creeks THE UNKNOWN BELOVED, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I passed a doorway Last Line: About a flowery wreath. Variant Title(s): Ballad Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: The brittle privet leaves, the day sleeps Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of THE UNREALISED IDEAL, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My only love is always near Last Line: Shall never see her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE VAUDOIS WIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is in mine ear, beloved Last Line: One only -- leaving thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE VIOLIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing sweet, sing sweet, my violin, sing Last Line: Is gone for us. Good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Curses; Desire; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of THE VISION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Softly she comes at the close of day Last Line: Can leave the world so drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE VISITANT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud moved close. The bulk of the wind shifted Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE VOICE OF THE THORN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the thorn on the down Last Line: A heart, and by thee.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WAITING HORSEMAN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At every door where lovers dwell Last Line: But love, ah love, has flown. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love - Loss Of THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is unkind, unkind! Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there were two of us Last Line: Will only bruise. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOUND, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shock comes slowly Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE WREATH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child through sunny meadows strolled Last Line: Both fruit and flowers it bore! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THEFT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Death could not have thee, sweet, and be unsatisfied Last Line: Has ever love or beauty died? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THEN AND NOW, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never were such radiant noons Last Line: The blight has killed the roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Transience; Impermanence THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breake now, my heart, and dye! Oh no, she may relent Last Line: At last a shaft daunted, which his hart did feele. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 29, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I then hope when faith is fled? Last Line: Faith failing her, love died in me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Hope THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIRST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth as necessary on mine as rain on the desert Last Line: When you hurt me %I won't let it show Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide THIS IS A LOVE, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: This is a love that had its beginning Last Line: And crying from love Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THIS MAN CRIES, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source Last Line: Will this pain ever cease Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear Last Line: He will come back. Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism THOU FLOWER OF SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in summer thou walkest Last Line: And shed its perfuming and bloom on thy breast. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you know me, my body at least Last Line: Though we no longer possess it Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THOUGHTS OF PHENA AT NEWS OF HER DEATH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a line of her writing have I Last Line: I may picture her there. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sparks, Tryphena THOUGHTS ON THE WORKS OF PROVIDENCE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise Last Line: What songs should rise, how constant, how divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality THOUSAND YEARS, YOU SAID, by HEGURI Poem Source Last Line: And the ache is hard to bear Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Otomo Yakamochi (718-785) THREE GOOD FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I can't remember how Last Line: Did she choose to let go %for us Subject(s): Friendship; Friendship - Selectivity; Love - Loss Of THREE MEETINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with life one day at dawn Last Line: "their friends are mine,"" said death, and smiled." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THROUGH AGONY: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to face the fact and say Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THRUSH, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I guessed the letter Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of TO --, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed that lips so sweet Last Line: Can thee forgive, but not forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A BEREAVED FRIEND, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast folded Last Line: Even to heaven, from such a love as thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement TO A CLERGYMAN ON THE DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where contemplation finds her sacred spring Last Line: To dry thy tears how longs the heav'nly muse! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A DEAD LOVER, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark is thrown Last Line: To leave what is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! For sweetness fam'd inspire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A GENTLEMAN ON HIS VOYAGE TO GREAT-BRITAIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While others chant the gay elysian scenes Last Line: And own thy work, great ruler of the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages TO A GOLDEN HEART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pledge of departed bliss Last Line: To mark it as a thrall of past captivity. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY ON HER COMING TO NORTH-AMERICAN WITH HER SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulgent muse! My grov'ling mind inspire Last Line: With shouts of joy the country rings around. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF THREE RELATIONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We trace the pow'r of death from tomb to tomb Last Line: And to thy father tune the praise divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LOST LOVE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies Last Line: But unto you and me will never come. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A LOST LOVE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold snowdrops which the shrinking Last Line: And praise is mute. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO A LOVER, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Tonight, of all mad nights of moon and wind and sea Last Line: Ah, my beloved! Come not this way again! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nostalgia; Passion; Romance; Male-female Relations TO A YOUNG GIRL WEEPING, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: Indeed there are not few of us who know Last Line: Hold healing for such bitterness of heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO AN UNKNOWN GODDESS, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Like to the violet amongst her leaves Last Line: Will wonder pensively, 'who can it be?' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Worship TO CAPTAIN H--D, OF THE 65TH REGIMENT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight Last Line: Britannia glories in no son like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO CYNTHIA, by GEORGE CLIFFORD Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are winged with hopes, my hopes with love Last Line: Till cynthia shine as she hath done before. Alternate Author Name(s): Cumberland, 3d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO HIS HONOUR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ON DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-conquering death! By thy resistless pow'r Last Line: That fain thy soul to heav'nly scenes would raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The TO HIS RIVALL, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lov'd I most Last Line: And helpe to beare you out, sir. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO JULIAN (WHO IS NOT JULIAN, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH), by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: He does not notice her Last Line: She cuts out their eyes %one by one Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Murder; Suicide; Unfaithfulness TO MAECENAS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade Last Line: Hear me propitious, and defend my lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MISS. MARY MOORHEAD, ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Involv'd in clouds of wo, maria mourns Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MR. AND MRS. - , ON THE DEATH OF THEIR INFANT SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death! Whose sceptre, trembling realsm obey Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MRS. LEONARD, ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grim monarch! See depriv'd of vital breath Last Line: And better suited to th' immortal mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Widows & Widowers TO MYRA, by GEORGE GRANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The happiest mortals once were we Last Line: Is to love -- and love in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Grenville, George; Lansdowne, Baron Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TO ONE IN HEAVEN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After you died, a few stray letters came Last Line: O little angel-maid, god's gifts are freely given! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO ONE WHO NEVER KNEW I CARED, by ELSIE THOMAS CULVER Poem Text First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth TO PITY, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: You come to me in pride of gentle beauty Last Line: I love the desert for its green oasis! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO TERESA, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Visions of days outworn, why do ye grow Last Line: Who recks of one more corpse laid low in earth? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDON MAGAZINE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, %as your magazine is a proper repository for any thing valuable or cusiou Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE BIO-BIO, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: Blest were he, o bio-bio! Last Line: Wish to live now for myself' Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Solitude TO THE HON. COMMODORE HOOD ON HIS PARDONING A DESERTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thy noble soul and high desert Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ... AMERICAN STAMP ACT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subjects hope Last Line: A monarch's smile can set his subjects free! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1768, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subject hope, dread sire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE REV. DR. THOMAS AMORY ON READING HIS SERMONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Last Line: A nobler title, and superior name! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: While an intrinsic ardor prompt [or, bids] me to write Last Line: And in immense perdition sinks the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767 Subject(s): Harvard University; Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE WILLOW TREE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art to all lost love the best Last Line: Come to weep out the night. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Willow Trees TO-MORROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in a lonely garden Last Line: Who never will come at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TOO LATE, by CLARISSA HILL HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I never told you of my love Last Line: Had told you so. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Dead, The TOO LATE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours Last Line: Too late! Too long! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. REST AT LAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Love - having journeyed through all of life Last Line: And I in them attain at last to rest. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE END OF LOVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not the end of love in this act or in that act Last Line: Great and immortal possession, which no man can take away. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TRAGEDY, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: I brought you a rose Last Line: The blood was mine! Subject(s): Blood; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy TRANSFORMATION, by LAWRENCE R. KAHN Poem Text First Line: Bitter as gall and wormwood Last Line: It is queer how your faults are magnified. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TRIOLETS: 1, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love looked back as he took his flight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TRUE LOVE, by ELIZABETH SIDDAL Poem Source First Line: Farewell, earl richard Last Line: Watching or fainting, %sleeping or dead Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the larkspur Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TWILIGHT, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Jes' a-smokin' Last Line: Prayin' you're a-lovin' too! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TWILIGHT TIME, by ANNA MCINTOSH BEVILLE Poem Text First Line: When twilight falls o'er land and sea Last Line: That lies long buried in a grave. Subject(s): Evening; Love - Loss Of; Sunset; Twilight TWO FOR THE FIRE: 1. LATE SPRING, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: The old wooden witch they call winter in the old country Last Line: If a heart were there Subject(s): Cold; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Winter TWO MARRIED, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how we came that day Last Line: And life itself is one more certainty. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO TREES, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Widower now, uneasy in the stern Last Line: Light on the lifting blades breaks and falls Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers TWO WAYS, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oncet in the museum Last Line: Now you're gone for good - say, %wasn't they no other way? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The UNCLE BOB, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bob lay on the settle Last Line: "and ""tea! Tea!"" she said, ""uncle bob." Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The UNDER THE COLD, PINE ARBOR MOON, by HONGJANG Poem Source Last Line: My love departs %not to return Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of UNITY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, my clock pants Last Line: A bullet in the blue shape of a heart Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of UNKNOWN FAIR FACES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I am faithful to my loves lived through Last Line: My heart she goes from -- never from my sight! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of UNLUCKY LOVER, by MAGEMESO NAMUNGALU Poem Source First Line: Oo, from which wing do you come? Last Line: But without you, for sure, I'll die unhappy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: Between tremulous, tired fingers Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the trailing mignonette Last Line: The man she loved no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Love - Loss Of UP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach me / I reach you Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise UP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach me %I reach you Last Line: Taste me now (offers up palm of left hand) %(right hand lifts up making gesture as if writing on the Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost, and lately, these Last Line: Their departures hence, and die. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of VAGRANT SIRENS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Love's thin galt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth VAIN FREEDOM, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I am free whom love held thrall so long! Last Line: With the old dreams, old tortures, for love's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty VALLADOLID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart was happy when I turned from burgos to valladolid Last Line: Twill ease my heart if thou depart, - thy peace may god restpre Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of VANISHING, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: You wish to pull yourself together Last Line: In order to help you out %of your loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude VIEW #2, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: It was just one task to recover the taken-for-granted Last Line: And good intentions. Begin again Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of VILLANELLE, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: Rosette, because I stayed awaye Last Line: Which shall be first to knowe regret. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret VILLANELLE, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my turtle fleet Last Line: After her I fayne would beat. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VISION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Was it perhaps in an imagined frame Last Line: In I know not what huge fold of darkness! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy VISIONS, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lone glenartney's thickets lies couched the lordly stag Last Line: My heart beat wildly -- and I woke, and lo! It was a dream. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Dreams VISIONS: 2, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms VISITANT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud moved close. The bulk of the wind shifted Last Line: The tree, the close willow, swayed Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WAIL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love has gone a-rocketing. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WAIT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wait, for now Last Line: Rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion Subject(s): Suicide; Love - Loss Of; Patience; Faith; Belief; Creed WAITING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my heart would break Last Line: And my heart broke, too! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spring WAKING AT 3 A.M., by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time humans feel closest to the grave Last Line: Try to touch him. I dare you. %try to kiss her Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Sleep WANT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You swore you loved me all last june Last Line: But you cannot restore. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WARM KEYS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A lost love leaps from the fire of my brow Last Line: And it sings an ancient lullaby %audible only to the trees Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WATER, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Inviting to my touch, but cool at first Last Line: To hold you, the less of you remained Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE WERE EACH ALONE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Carrying a photograph of your eyes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Solitude WEAKNESS ENDS WITH LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say not, regret me; you will not regret Last Line: It died with the sentence -- I love thee no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WELCOME TO DEATH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why should we linger on earth, when have fled Last Line: There's release from all ills in thy grasp! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue WELL BELOVED HOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Poorly dressed and sad %along the old street I am walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude 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 WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou to my true love com'st Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow" Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise; WET EARTH, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: Wet earth of liquid evenings when the rain Last Line: An acolyte of camphor, %slightly swordfish, slightly %saint isador labrador... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears WHAT I LOVE, by LORINC SZABO Poem Source First Line: I must love the things Last Line: Because they're all that's left of her Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of WHAT IF EVERYONE YOU'VE LOVED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the young, who don't know it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Old Age WHAT THE DUST DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't be measured. It filters everywhere, all night Last Line: Maybe there's still something hidden in there, something green %as it is invisible, flickering in th Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of WHEN LOVE AND BEAUTY WANDER AWAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love and beauty wander away, Last Line: Who have known beauty, and spring, and love? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Love - Loss Of WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHEN SHE WENT, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: She'd long gone strange %a yellowed button Last Line: And when we knocked those down, nothing Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sky WHEN, WITH YOU ASLEEP, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When, with you asleep, I plunge into your soul Last Line: The secret of the center %of the heavens Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Heaven; Love - Loss Of WHERE IT LISTETH, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came / but when or how I do not know Last Line: Told me so. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WHERE, O, WHERE?, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not die to go Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WHERE, O, WHERE?, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not die to go Last Line: You shall see me no more %though each night I hide %in your bed, at your side Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WHISPERING WIND, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Whispering wind that blows across this lake Last Line: Whispering wind my love has gone away Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Wind WHITE IBIS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: The first white ibis ever recorded in minnesota was reported Last Line: He imagined it all white and shocking in the sun. %no ibis. No sun Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers WHO WILL BUY ME AN ORANGE?, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source Last Line: To console me know? Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Loss Of WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT THE OWL SO FIERCE?, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: At night, when the whole flock herds together Last Line: Grow more and more infrequent Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Widows And Widowers WHO'S STANDING, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Are you the stone of a fruit, dear soul? Mandorla, fetus Last Line: Loaded among wooden logs Subject(s): Continents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Yugoslavia WIDOW, by AL MASARIK Poem Source First Line: Together so many years Last Line: Here are his empty shoes Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Widows And Widowers WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG Poem Source First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The WIND OF THE SOUTH, by JENNIE MCBRIDE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Tender you were and shy, wind of the south Last Line: My love is dead, beneath the southern stars. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Dead, The WINDOW'S GROVE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Drinking sleep I grow old Last Line: Gathered me, sinking, from sleep Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers WINTER BRANCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When I see you Last Line: Of agony. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER PIECE, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: Cree - ee - eak %the spreading fracture Last Line: Her small hand to me as she hissed -- you worm Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy WITH CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed of grass too damp where love too soon Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WITH CHERUBIM AND A FLAMING SWORD, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bed of grass too damp where love too soon Last Line: Of the simple bliss that they had always known Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WITH ROSES, by SHEFFIELD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Within the box whose gilded sides Last Line: Long years ago. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses WOMAN PRIDE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of his life she will go quietly Last Line: So softly she will go—in woman pride! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMAN'S LOVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: They told me of her history - her love Last Line: Was as a home. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Women; Sorrow; Sadness WONDERFUL THINGS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne, who are dead and whom I loved in a rather asinine fashion Last Line: Tell you wonderful things Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary WOUNDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I'm scared %I'm just a stone's throw away from god Last Line: If I lose you, I lose form Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WRITTEN FOR MY NEIGHBOR: HE WAITED FOR LOVED ONE NEVER CAME, by SHEN YUEH Poem Source First Line: Her shadow races with slanting moonbeams Last Line: She said yes when she really meant no - %you'd like to laugh but you cry instead Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YES!, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I said 'let's go rollerblading Last Line: Yes!,' I answered 'yes' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of YOU SAID, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said, 'I will put a glowing armor about you' Last Line: Keep your answer awhile . . . Yet awhile . . . I am coming to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOU SPLIT ME DOWN TO MY ATOMS, by SIMON LINDQUIST Poem Source Last Line: After you %take me apart Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOUNG BENJIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of a' the maids o' fair scotland Last Line: To scug his deadly sin Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOUTH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She paved the way with perfume sweet Last Line: She left me to grow old alone. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of |
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