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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - UNREQUITED Matches Found: 439 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BAGATELLE, by JAMES G. BURNETT Poem Text First Line: A bagatelle! Ah, mistress prue Last Line: A bagatelle. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A BALL-ROOM MADRIGAL, by W. C. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: I sing not of beauties of nature Last Line: W. C. Nichols. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A BAZAAR BALLAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier young and brave was he Last Line: "three counters toward the right!" Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A DEFIANCE, RETURNING TO THE PLACE OF HIS PAST AMOURS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heart of ice did here my heart inflame Last Line: I'll triumph more than e'er I griev'd before. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A DENIAL, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have met late - it is too late to meet Last Line: Look in my face and see.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time A DISCRETE LOVE POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is for you, with your umbrella Last Line: This is for that night your body was neither here nor there Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Sex A LA BOURBON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divine destroyer, pity me no more Last Line: Frown death immediately. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A LADY AT THE OPERA, by EMMA GRAY TRIGG Poem Text First Line: In your pale hair is a coronet of diamonds Last Line: Alive and free! Subject(s): Diamonds; Love - Unrequited; Passion A LOVE SONNET, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved a lass, a fair one Last Line: Falero, lero, loo. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A MAN'S REPENTANCE (INTENDED FOR RECITATION AT CLUB DINNERS), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight when I came from the club at eleven Last Line: I know how a murderer feels to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Unrequited; Repentance; Supernatural; Penitence A MAY SONG, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Text First Line: A little while my love and I Last Line: My love (who loves me not) and I Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A MEDAL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it pleasure me, isotta, why? Last Line: Give me my plato. Pray, how stands the hour? Subject(s): Chivalry; Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A NIGHT IN JUNE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! In this night of june Last Line: For my lady cometh not! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A PROTEST, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 4 Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise A SONNET, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, 'tis true, your beauties move Last Line: Reward for his delight? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A STATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading a life of george eliot Last Line: To hampstead and a station Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A WEST-COUNTRY LOVER, by ALICE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, lady, at last thou art sick of my sighing Last Line: Good-bye! Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Unrequited A WOMAN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great love that was not for her Last Line: That ached with emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the pride for which I once was blamed Last Line: Spite of my worship, thou wilt turn away? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER A POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never stopped loving him Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Unrequited; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AH! ME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fairest flower upon the vine Last Line: "its sweetness I can only guess, / but never know" Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations AN EPISTLE THROWN INTO A RIVER IN A BALL OF WAX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, gentle paper; happy, happier far Last Line: Shall reap one joy but by the hand of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Love - Unrequited AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: And slides off toward the falt gray horizon, %not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Sea; Women ANTIPATHY, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love him not; but shew no reason can Last Line: Wherefore, but this, I do not love the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Love - Unrequited APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APRIL IN GERMANY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it easier to believe in god if your hopes come to be Last Line: That is %what bites Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AT HER CASEMENT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am knee-deep in grass, in this warm june night Last Line: Killed by her slowly returning scorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AT TWO-AND-TWENTY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marian, may, and maud Last Line: What care I? Subject(s): Aging; Love - Unrequited AUDUBON, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his Last Line: In the second (more affordable) octavo edition (birds of america, 1844 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geryon learned about justice from his brother quite early Last Line: Where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces %night at their back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX A, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suidas s.V. Palinodia: 'counter song' or 'saying the opposite of what Last Line: Once sat down to compose (his 'palinode' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX B, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No it is not the true story Last Line: No you never came to the towers of troy Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: APPENDIX C, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Either stesichoros was a blind man or he was not Last Line: 21. If stesichoros was a blind man either we will lie or if not not Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: RED MEAT - FRAGMENTS OF STESICHOROS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geryon was a monster everything about him was red Last Line: The red world and corresponding red breezes %went on geryon did not Subject(s): Love - Unrequited AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: RED MEAT - WHAT DIFFERENCE DID STESICHOROS MAKE?, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came after homer and before gertrude stein, a diffi Last Line: The box. 'believe me for meat and for myself,' as gertrude stein says. %here. Shake Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BACK TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Full red lips, breasts, curls Last Line: Like your smile? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BALLAD TO AN ITALIAN TUNE , by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor heart, retire! Last Line: When t'others it's granted, as well as to thee. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BOOK OF ISAIAH, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah awoke angry Last Line: He slept, the asters in the garden unloaded their red thunder into the dark Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BOOK OF ISAIAH: 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isaiah walked for three years in the valley of vision Last Line: Thus their contract continued Subject(s): Love - Unrequited BRICKLAYER LOVE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer Last Line: Boards go wrong, I think of you. Subject(s): Bricklayers; Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 1 - WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have here Last Line: Does that look like enough for a story? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 10, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fact that anna is somewhere Last Line: Down there %starving Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 11, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A phenomenologist from louvain-la-neuve Last Line: Or we would eat %many more paintings Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 12, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step back from the language Last Line: Rendered in daubs %of blue and black Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 13, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Group portrait: a special commission Last Line: Thence to be gathered %by painters Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 14, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phenomenologist from paris hates mosquitoes Last Line: That will open in the anglo-french dialectic here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 15, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phenomenologists are in each other's way today Last Line: Heidegger, ja, liked farmers very much Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 16, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day anna was married Last Line: To bring it closer %to true green Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 17, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the tender pietro vannucci Last Line: Buonarroti, buonarroti all day long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 18, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was practicing my italian in the bar Last Line: And left for a walk. %ich bin ich Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 19, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One phenomenologist has a coughing fit Last Line: The speaker, infinitely %polite to us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 2, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I would like to call her anna Last Line: Floor down there. %attenti ai cani Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 21, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In renaissance painting Last Line: Unaccountable for the murder Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 22, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you look at the painting you do not see the sound Last Line: Of perugino's %creatures Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 23, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure lines of umbria Last Line: Just lower than the %barking Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 24, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Working on her lecture in the library Last Line: The ugly stain on the windowsill Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 25, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna's dogs were gunning in the blood down there before Last Line: To paint %inside la rocca Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 26, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you two things about anna Last Line: She killed her father Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 27, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sixteenth century there were lines and there were Last Line: Eyes slide to the left Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 28, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sight line Last Line: Are an illusion produced by the painter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 29, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The method of producing ultramarine Last Line: By its cool cast and sparkle Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They do not know her here. That is Last Line: I am free to invent her! Sweet %dogs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 30, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of perugino's early works Last Line: To shame his stinginess Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 31, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the galleries above la rocca Last Line: Making no sound Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 32, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the dogs Last Line: Demented infant wandering in from he edge of the world. %one cry. %grido Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 33, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ordinarily %the conversations of phenomenologists Last Line: Libertas ad peccandum et ad non peccandum %eyes left Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 34, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first issue raised by the nuns Last Line: Third was her name Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 35, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not hinge on me, anna says Last Line: White lead %because of %dampness Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 36, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside la rocca they joked Last Line: An ancient category comes to light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 37, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of living is to alter it Last Line: Forbidden by an official %alter what? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 38, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the convent Last Line: And meant %the love of innocence Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 39, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perugino, it is interesting to note Last Line: The novel rule %of two centers of vision Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 4, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept, woke, slept in a fever of dogs Last Line: It may not be serious Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 40, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To categorize %means to name in public Last Line: Is another troublesome %ancient %category Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 41, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds of smoke in early morning Last Line: Delirious %through the smoke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 42, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver leaf %must be cut with a knife on a leather cushion Last Line: For burnishing %afterward Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 43, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious system of exchanges Last Line: And the ritual %totters forward Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 44, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No. %yes %inside la rocca Last Line: Deep in the background %dead center Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 45, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cristo morto Last Line: For the flesh tones. %alter what? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 46, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beloved's innocence Last Line: Enrages history. %senza uscita Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 47, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna's father enlisted Last Line: You have killed your father Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 48, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the last afternoon of the conference Last Line: She assents vigorously. 'e difficile.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 49, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For very deep red Last Line: But for scientists as well Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 5, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are other women here Last Line: At which she got angry Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 50, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna climbs stairs built on blood Last Line: Il mio shaglio %il mio grido Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 51, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No,' said perugino Last Line: Anna did not hear %the dogs turn Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 52, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the last occurrence of such a ritual Last Line: Bloodless %glancing %out Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 6, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famous phenomenologists of tutta l'italia Last Line: Lunch is the central meal of the day here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 7, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E il treno giusto per perugia Last Line: No trains were going where you were, she answered Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 8, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna is hesitating somewhere Last Line: I never heard of it %from anyone else Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CANICULA DI ANNA: 9, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is perhaps not widely known Last Line: His successor's more colossal genius Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CLASSIC OF POETRY: 35, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Valley winds are howling Last Line: You gave no heed to earlier times, %when once you came and loved me Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love - Unrequited COLIN'S COMPLAINT, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despairing beside a clear stream Last Line: His ghost shall glide over the green. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited COMPANIONS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, never quite alone am I. Last Line: I know there will be sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Unrequited COMPLAINS, BEING HIND'RED THE SIGHT OF HIS NYMPH, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To view these walls each night I come alone Last Line: I in a sea of mine own tears am drown'd. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited COMPLAINT, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we were parted, or though he had died Last Line: "nor die of his cruelty." Subject(s): Love - Unrequited CONDITIONALLY, by WILLIAM FRENCH COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Ethel asked me for a verse Last Line: Grant the rhymester something, too! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited 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 DAPHNE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Here's a tale from times called olden, further / qualified as golden Last Line: Not a laurel, but a wall-flower—which is not an evergreen! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Unrequited; Mythology DESPITE HER PAIN, ANOTHER DAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: River fogs (7 a.M.) stray and begin, shiver and begin Last Line: Me, as ever, gone Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: BEASTS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The notion of female wildness, current in greek thinking from prehis Last Line: Carry with them like a contagion. Which brings us to the question %'what is dirt?' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: DIRTS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirt' may be defined as 'matter out of place.' the poached egg on Last Line: Is condemning melian civilization to chaos Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LEAKS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We find this same metaphor, deployed from the feminine point of view Last Line: Are vessels whose contents are sealed against dirt and loss. To put the lid %on certifies purity Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LIDS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Putting the lid on female purity was the chief concern and ritual point Last Line: If you can read this, you've come too close Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: LOGICS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Physiologically and psychologically women are wet. Hippokrates differ Last Line: No longer trembles with growth' but rather attains and keeps its %proper dry form Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: We will address these in turn. First let us consider the logic of female pollution Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DIRT AND DESIRE: WANTONS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This condition of dry stability is never attained by the female physique Last Line: Categories of female and animal Subject(s): Love - Unrequited DREAM AND IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diana with her limbs of dream Last Line: Across the distance for his sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of her the whole night long Last Line: The pillows wet with tears. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Nightmares ECLOGUE 2, SELS., by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young corydon (hard fate) an humble swain Last Line: Pan both the sheep and harmless shepherd love Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, does that stupid earth Last Line: She and her scorn have found! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 29. ALL NOT WORTH A REWARD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What means this worship? All this cringe and whine Last Line: Toiling for others, thou thyself grow'st poor. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: ANNUNCIATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motion swept the world aside, aghast to white nerve nets Last Line: Slow, from inside Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: DONNE CLOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' perfect joint of moon I doe commend me to you Last Line: No, coldlights. Eye at all Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: EUROPE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once live x-rays stalked the hills as if they were Last Line: Tattering on the daywall Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: EVIL, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get the sound take everything that is not the sound drop it Last Line: Then drop the sound. Listen to the difference %shatter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: OEDIPUS' NAP, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorched to wake lawless, loose Last Line: Pulling the clouds home, balancing massacre %on the rips Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Oedipus EPITAPH: THAW, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness Last Line: Anvil of deep decree Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITAPH: ZION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives Last Line: Who drank a bowl of elsewhere Subject(s): Love - Unrequited EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's to—success to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium ESSAY ON ERROR: 2, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is also true I dream about soiled suede gloves Last Line: I still remember the phrase every time I pass that spot Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Error. / and its emotions Last Line: But that such mistakenness is valuable Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Error. %and its emotions Last Line: Using a single brushstroke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FALL OF ROME: A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this time tomorrow I will be a man of rome Last Line: Until %we meet again %so long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FIRST CHALDAIC ORACLE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something you should know Last Line: Because it is out there (orchid) outside your and, it is Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FIRST LOVE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was you heard the music of a sigh Last Line: Whose steadfast beauty lights till death your days. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FLATMAN: 1, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the circus. I play the flat man Last Line: Not beethoven - beethoven I cannot flatten Variant Title(s): My Sho Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FLATMAN: 2, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you see this card half out of my pocket you know Last Line: And I can pay Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FORTUNIO'S SONG, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If you think I shall declare Last Line: Her name reveal. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FREUD: 1, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freud spent the summer of 1876 in trieste Last Line: In fact nothing to do with them,' he confided in a letter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FREUD: 2, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you go to iowa visit the raptor center Last Line: And find himself right back on top Subject(s): Love - Unrequited 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 GENDER OF SOUND, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge Last Line: Outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GIFTS, by MILDRED SPARKS Poem Text First Line: It is better to give -' Last Line: You are not here to take. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: HERO, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can tell by the way my mother chews her toast Last Line: His black grin flares once and goes out like a match Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: HOT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot blue moonlight down the steep sky Last Line: Our guests are darkly lodged, I whispered, gazing through %t Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: I, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: Tomorrow I am going to visit my mother Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: KITCHEN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kitchen is quiet as a bone when I come in Last Line: Okay ma. What's for supper Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: LIBERTY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Liberty means different things to different people Last Line: Prison for strongest [in emily's hand] altered to lordly by Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: SHE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lives on a moor in the north Last Line: What meat is it, emily, we need Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: THOU, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The question I am left with is the question of her lonliness Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: THREE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three silent women at the kitchen table Last Line: She grins. Yes you do Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GLASS ESSAY: WHACHER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whacher, %emily's habitual spelling of this word Last Line: Just some movements inside the light and then a sinking away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD KNOWS I SHOULD HAVE HAD MY FILL OF SONG, by CASTELLOZA Poem Source Last Line: For I live on kindness, %faith and constant courage Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Troubadours GOD OF WASHINGTON, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw god one midnight near some bushes in washington Last Line: Who needs always to be in love with someone it doesn't matter who Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S ARDOR, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God had been given a tape of lucifer's from hell Last Line: God sat like a wife watching the slow fields %enter and release their illegible white sighs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S BAD NIGHT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you believe in the devil? Neither did kafka Last Line: Kafka spoke german %only to extant beings Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S HANDIWORK, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best way to insult god Last Line: The best way to insult god %is to damage your uniqueness, %which god has worked on Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S TEAT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chance word (plastos) told oedipus Last Line: The clamp that was growing forward from his forehead %snagged something soft Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GOD'S VERIFICATIONIST PHASE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rainforest are lizards called jesus christ lizards Last Line: Who are you going to listen to, angela or some lizard Subject(s): Love - Unrequited GRACE AND LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she Last Line: Their starry more from her and me, unite. Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Vases HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry And Poets HELEN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights of a marriage are like an egypt in a woods Last Line: Every war needs one Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HER BECKETT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to visit my mother is like starting in on a piece by beckett Last Line: Whipping everything %and hides again Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HEROES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I think sometimes of what wondrous fame Last Line: But striving on, unnoted and alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Heroism; Love - Unrequited; Martyrs; Saints; Heroes; Heroines HIS SONG FOR HER WAKING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Tis dawn in the sky of the world Last Line: If you cared -- if you cared. Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Unrequited; Sunrise HOKUSAI, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger is a bitter lock Last Line: As they thudded past Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope it does not tell an obvious anecdote Last Line: For none is intended Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: AUTOMAT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night work %neon milk Last Line: Domine %girl de luxe Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: ELEVEN A.M., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White bones %hapless mortal Last Line: As cloth or clay. %for rags Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: EVENING WIND, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dog or horse will wish to be remembered Last Line: That links origin %and tendency? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: NIGHTHAWKS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Last Line: I wanted to run away with you tonight Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: OFFICE AT NIGHT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man woman windowcord paper fire stones Last Line: Autumn that pierces our bones? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: ROOM IN BROOKLYN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This %slow %day Last Line: Down my afternoon Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: SUMMER INTERIOR, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer smeared the day, you slid Last Line: Spoke to themselves low, near %and tenderly Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: THE BARBER SHOP, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes practice to shave the skin off the light Last Line: Quiet she %may %be %his %daughter Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: THE GLOVE OF TIME BY EDWARD HOPPER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I am but a shadow of a passenger on this planet Last Line: For in what does time differ from eternity except we measure it? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: WESTERN MOTEL, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pink bedspreads you say Last Line: Two suitcases watch you like dogs Subject(s): Love - Unrequited HOW CAN THE HEART FORGET HER?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At her fair hands how have I grace entreated Last Line: "fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her?" Subject(s): Forgetfulness;hearts;love - Unrequited HOW LIKE A WOMAN, by CAROLINE KING DUER Poem Text First Line: I wanted you to come today Last Line: You did not give me one sensation. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Relationships I AM NOT YOURS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not yours, not lost in you Last Line: A taper in a rushing wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited I'M OVER THE MOON, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I don't like what the moon is supposed to do. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Love - Erotic IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Last Line: In cittie nor on hill, but all the night must sleep alone Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20: THE NEATHERD'S LAMENT, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica laughed out at me when sweetly I would have kissed her Last Line: Kiss thy darling, and lonely all the long night mayst thou sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Unrequited IF YOU BUT KNEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Could you but learn? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IF YOU BUT KNEW, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you but knew the tears that fall Last Line: And ne'er depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IL PASTOR FIDO, by EGIDIO BACIGALUPO Poem Source First Line: I am the absurd lunatic Last Line: I knew you were smiling at me Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IN ETERNUM, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eternum I was once determed Last Line: In eternum. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): In Aeternum;song: 14 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: I made myself a poet in the place Last Line: "he's got it bad, poor fool; we know the girl!" Subject(s): Love - Unrequited INSULTING BEAUTY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insulting beauty! You misspend Last Line: Am killed by your disdain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Unrequited INTERVIEW WITH HARA TAMIKI: 1950, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I: death %ht: death made me grow up Last Line: Ht: there was no shorter way home Subject(s): Love - Unrequited INVOCATION TO MISERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, be happy! - sit near me Last Line: Where I am -- where thou hast been? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pain; Suffering; Misery IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Beginngs %beginnings are hard Last Line: Hearing the bell ring five o'clock. Comes a knock at the door Subject(s): Deneuve, Catherine; Love - Unrequited IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE (2D DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it sumply. Speaking of a young girl Last Line: Five o'clock bell. Comes a knock at the door Subject(s): Love - Unrequited JENIFER'S LOVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small is my secret - let it pass Last Line: Above your bed, as I o'er mine? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Secrets; Social Classes; Caste JUSTINE, YOU LOVE ME NOT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know, justine, you speak me fair Last Line: Justine, you love me not! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited KISS, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Incorrigible, false coquette Last Line: On my pale cheeks and livid lips %(but tell it not) Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LA VIE C'EST LA VIE, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer afternoons I sit Last Line: I wish that I were dead. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other bait pushed their way past me with cloaklike flutters Last Line: When shall I not %hear it Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LAZARUS: 1, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour repeats, repeats Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: A TOWN I HAVE HEARD OF, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of nowhere Last Line: On the stove Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What an anxious existence I led Last Line: For bitter warfare. %is dear to us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: APOSTLE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your death Last Line: Beautiful the nerves pouring around in her like palace fire Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: BRIDE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging on the daylight black Last Line: Noon the demander was waiting for me Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: DEATH TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day whenever I pause Last Line: Its noise Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting nothing else %waiting itself Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: EMILY TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riches in a little room Last Line: It meant to. %her Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: FREUD TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Devil say I am an unlocated Last Line: Devil outlived devil in Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: JUDAS TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a late hour not unlit rows Last Line: Not morsel not I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LOVE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She ran in Last Line: Down her back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: LUCK TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Digging a hole Last Line: A man struck gold Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: MEMORY TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In each one of you I paint Last Line: 15 miles? %140 miles? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: ONE-MAN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's magritte weather today said max Last Line: Ernst knocking his head on a boulder Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: PUSHKIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has rules Last Line: Or will be by the time our eyes are ember Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: SEPTEMBER TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fear is that Last Line: Brother from the police Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: SYLVIA TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burners and the starvers Last Line: Lay on the desk Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: THOMAS TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand in hand into his mind never Last Line: A thought came but that other %followed Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOLERANCE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold cup 1 woman 2 Last Line: Gold cup 1 woman 1 %gold cup 1 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN A-ROVING, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no god but Last Line: Of gold as if they would break Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN GONE TO SLEEP, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was distant thunder that was its Last Line: Was a creature's heart. %plunged Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN JUST BEFORE THE LIGHTNING FLASH, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nuances not effective in point form Last Line: Wrote paul klee (1923) Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF BATHSHEBA'S CROSSING, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside a room in amsterdam Last Line: On tracks and sideroads Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF FINDING OUT ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had made a mistake Last Line: The sobbing made me. %audible to you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF GRETA GARBO, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my idol left it broke Last Line: Hearing still hear Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF MY FAREWELL TO YOU, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look what a thousand blue thousand white Last Line: Blowing down the road Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Longing from a great distance. %reached us Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DRAGON VEIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you wake up too early listen for it Last Line: Time Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old mother fingers coming down through the dark Last Line: At the back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE LITTLE MOUTHFUL, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without arrows how? Last Line: Through by the bowstring Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE MAN IN THE MIND AT NIGHT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-five %to four a Last Line: Of night like a %paring Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE NOON STACK, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midi Last Line: Midi Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE SOUND OF A TWIG BREAKING, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their faces I thought were knives Last Line: Out of his hand and impales %itself Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How. %walls are built why Last Line: Do they eat -- light? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF UNEVEN LOVE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he had loved me he would have seen me Last Line: At an upstairs window brow beating against the glass Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN ON THE WAY THROUGH GOD'S WOODS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me %have you ever seen Last Line: Old freight car the word for god's %woods Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LIFE OF TOWNS: WOLF TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let tigers. %kill them bears Last Line: Hear a cloud pass. %overhead Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns LINES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone Last Line: It feel like burning, said the child to be kind Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LONGING, A DOCUMENTARY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Night %river Last Line: Subtitle: as usual she enjoyed the sense of work, of having %worked. Other fears would soon return Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE ABSENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where wert thou, love, when from twm barlum turned Last Line: Allowest time to part us with his hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE AND PRIDE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have striven for you, dear Last Line: My heart accepts the sterner task Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE POEMS OF THE SIXTH DALAI LAMA: 2, by TSANGYANG GYATSO Poem Source First Line: Wild horses running in the hills Last Line: A lover's heart that's turned away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE WITHOUT HOPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited LOVE WITHOUT HOPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Last Line: Singing about her head, as she rode by Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited LOVE'S DOUBTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My brother hath come forth from mine house Last Line: Eternally and for ever! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVE'S LOSS LAMENTED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O swift, o proud, o brave, o beautiful Last Line: What was is not. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Unrequited LOVE'S USURY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you; and because you do not love Last Line: I gave; the richer, for enriching you. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Love - Unrequited LOVERS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think perhaps my heart would be less sore Last Line: If I need not look on lovers any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Complaints; Love - Unrequited LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 32, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely eyes of violet blue Last Line: The heart alone is cold as the tomb. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MAY MARGARET, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: If you be that may margaret Last Line: The dearer for the tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ME, by UKON Poem Source First Line: Me %you've forgotten Last Line: We vowed %before the gods Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MEG'S CURSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rode high in a cloudless sky Last Line: And die for the sake of the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Obsessions; Dead, The METHINKS THE POOR TOWN HAS BEEN TROUBLED TOO LONG, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light on the brick wall and a north wind whipping the branches Last Line: Mother gallant %and gay Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MISTAKES OF GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one can be with you on the inside Last Line: This you may mistake for god Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MULBERRIES BY THE PATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sunrise in southeast Last Line: There are thousands that dine at his board, %and all of them say how grand he is! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited MY LADY OF CASTLE GRAND, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray is the palace where she dwells Last Line: My lady of castle grand. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MY MAN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My man is not my man Subject(s): Love - Unrequited MY NEIGHBOUR'S CURTAINS, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My charming neighbour's curtain / is moving, I declare Last Line: Tis by the wind, no doubt! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Neighbors; Window Treatments; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes MY WOOING, by EDWIN HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: One evening, many months ago Last Line: "she said, ""I won't!""—and isn't." Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited NEW RULE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice Last Line: The way to hold on is %afterwards %so %clear Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NO EPITAPH, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he grew up in the west he was used to the sound of the wind Last Line: No need for men to chatter so Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NO EPITAPH: PAGE OF HIS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song on the death and burial of one prince Last Line: Being but a tree, but still! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NOTHING FOR IT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your glassy wind breaks on a shoutless shore and stirs around the rose Last Line: Blows on what was our house. %nothing for it just row Subject(s): Love - Unrequited NOW WHAT?, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and you will lie dead Last Line: As a participle. %perfect: never. %flown. %yet already %(breathed) gone? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 3. TO A FRIEND UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOVE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, my phaedria, if to find Last Line: Some happier love, some truer fair. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited OF THINGS I'D RATHER KEEP IN SILENCE I MUST SING, by DIA Poem Source Last Line: But above all, messenger, make him comprehend %that too much pride has undone many men Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Troubadours OFFICER OF THE GUARD, by XIN YAN-NIAN Poem Source First Line: A bondsman of the house of huo Last Line: No thank you, officer of the guard, %private love isn't worth it Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited ON LOVE: MARINA TSVETAEVA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human thresholds are meant to be crossed Last Line: I would be a wing that soars for love Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Love - Unrequited; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941); Estrangement; Outcasts ON RAPE UNATTEMPTED, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be alive, they say, when I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! When we to arqua's village came Last Line: Nor car'd for fame who was in love so blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Petrarch (1304-1374); Poetry & Poets; Francesco Petrarca OPPOSED GLIMPSE OF ALICE JAMES, GARTH JAMES, HENRY JAMES, ........, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sunday terrible in all the little ways that sunday is terrible news Last Line: Without any dinner, as she does not eat Subject(s): Love - Unrequited PHILLIS KNOTTING, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hears not my phillis how the birds Last Line: Sat and knotted all the while. Variant Title(s): Song;hears Not My Phyllis;phyllis Knotting Subject(s): Love - Unrequited PHILOSOPHY, by C. W. CRANNELL Poem Text First Line: Shall I grieve because a maid Last Line: Medal men are seldom in it. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Philosophy & Philosophers PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 1. JOHN'S MARY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John's mary ripened golden as the wheat Last Line: Why mary sought a sailor, -- and left john to weep. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails POWDERED WHITE LEAD FOR THE LONG EYES OF PERUGINO, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powdered white lead for the long eyes of perugino Last Line: Powdered white lead for the long eyes of perugino Subject(s): Love - Unrequited PROJECT FOR A FAINTING, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, yes, the rain is sorry. Unfemale, of course, the rain is Subject(s): Love - Unrequited PROPERZIA ROSSI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One dream of passion and of beauty more! Last Line: "say proudly yet -- ""'twas hers who loved me well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Rossi, Properzia; Women REFUSAL, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You had loved my laughter Last Line: As love's offering! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited RELUCTANCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will I have some mo' dat pie Last Line: Dah you been daihin' me. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited REQUIESCAT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I digged thy grave in my memory Last Line: Not sown of love, not sown of love. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Memory; Dead, The ROMEO TO ROSALINE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since, in the ashen nunnery of your heart Subject(s): Love - Unrequited RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By two black eyes my heart was won Last Line: Though proper to reward my flame / by two black eyes Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;women SALOPIA INHOSPITALIS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch not that maid Last Line: For adamant can neither waste nor melt. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Shropshire, England SAMMO, by MAST TAVAKKULI Poem Source First Line: Sammo is a fig-tree on the hill Last Line: Cuts like a sword-blade, fierce and sharp Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SESTINA [AL POCO GIORNO], by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached, alas, the long shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Passion SESTINA [AL POCO GIORNO], by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached, alas, the long shadow Last Line: As one might hide a stone in grass Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Passion SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 2. THE OTHER ONE COMES TO HER, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: At last her face was turned to him who knew Last Line: She sent him from her with remorseful eyes. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Unrequited SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 5. SHE THINKS OF THE FAITHFUL ONE, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: And when her broken thoughts went following after Last Line: Why, since she needs must love, it was not he. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SHADOWBOXER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the soldier who put a spear through christ's side on the cross Last Line: As dew in aprille. %hook. %jab. %jab Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SHE WOULD NOT KNOW ME, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She would not know me were she now to view me Last Line: But let her pass me by -- she will not know me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SHOES: AN ESSAY ON HOW PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM BEGINS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beginning has as its purpose to set us on the road Last Line: Who heard it from diotima %whose feet remain a mystery Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SINKING STONE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the alpine Last Line: Your loving someone %else instead of me! Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited SIX TANKA WRITTEN FOR YAKAMOCHI: 6, by KASA Poem Source First Line: To love a man without return Last Line: In a huge temple Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Otomo Yakamochi (718-785) 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 SONG, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: O beauteous april, whom too often choral Last Line: Month, to such bitter bloom as once you bore. Subject(s): April; Love - Unrequited; Spring SONG, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has summer come without the rose Last Line: Here, where she loves me not. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Unrequited SONG (12), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot lose thee for a day Last Line: The arm above will shield thy love.' Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited SONG (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love comes singing to his heart Last Line: But oh, my heart will break. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SONG OF A YOUNG GIRL, by FLAVIEN RANAIVO Poem Source First Line: Oaf %the young man who lives down there Last Line: Here are your victuals and three water-lily flowers %for the way is long Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Negritude (literary Movement) SONG TO MY MISTRESS, I BURNING IN LOVE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I burn, and cruel you in vain Last Line: Till you burn, as well as I. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Unrequited SONG: 1, by THOMAS DUFFETT Poem Text First Line: Since coelia's my foe Last Line: No answer again. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Unrequited; Parting SONNET, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of love! Let break its every hold! Last Line: I want to kiss a woman made of fire Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Love SONNET FROM THE FRENCH OF ANVERS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has its secret, my soul its mystery Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SONNET: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A torture-chamber was the world to me Last Line: To her, who stands with cold and mocking smile. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SONNET: HER WORST AND BEST, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O strange event of fortune that befell! Last Line: To you, who found and spurned in her, her worst. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, so all things now do hold their peace Last Line: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "a Complaint By Night Of The Lover Not Beloved;night;a Night Piece;""alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING MORNING, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star and coronal and bell Last Line: Rouses from another's side. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ST. MARIE DE LA MER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In st. Marie de la mer Last Line: An aroused woman upon the reddish moss Subject(s): Gypsies; Love - Unrequited; Paintings And Painters; Women STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou be in a lonely place Last Line: One pulse, still true to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Love - Unrequited STANZAS TO A LADY ON LEAVING ENGLAND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done - and shivering in the gale Last Line: Yet still he loves, and loves but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth STATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading a life of george eliot Last Line: To hampstead and a station Subject(s): Love - Unrequited STRANGE HOUR, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3 a.M. Cool palace roar of oakland night Last Line: Clear at this hour Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SUCH IS THE SICKNESS OF MANY A GOOD THING, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was he then adam of the burning way? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SUMPTUOUS DESTITUTION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The way out of here Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TACT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observant of the way she told Last Line: Alone below the stars. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Tact TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Courtship; Popular Culture; Relationships; Disappointment; Bullies THAT STRENGTH, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That strength. Mother, dug out. Hammered, chained Last Line: Breakable on grindstones %that strength, %mother %broke Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE ANSWER, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing adds to your fond fire Last Line: And kill the rebel in your arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BUTTERFLY'S MADRIGAL, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love-for-a-day, come let's be gay! Last Line: But love for aye—ah, never! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time THE COMPLAINT OF A LOVER FORSAKEN OF HIS LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A poor soule sate sighing by a sicamore tree Last Line: "thou dost loth me, -- I love thee, though cause of my death" Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAISY TOLD A LIE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I asked a pretty maiden Last Line: The daisy told a lie. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Legends; Love - Unrequited THE DESPAIRING LOVER, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted with care / for phyllis the fair Last Line: To his cottage again. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Unrequited THE DISAPPOINTED DEMON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: A japanese artist of old took a chisel Last Line: The laughter of blossom-cheeked somebody san! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Unrequited THE EARL'S RETURN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ragged and tall stood the castle wall Last Line: Under the boughs of this bare black thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The THE ENDLESS HOST, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: There's a soft host whose van will be Last Line: And 'wildering softness, sunny-curled. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE FIRST DOUBT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, love, and rank, and wealth - all these combined Last Line: She sank before the presence of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE FLOWER OF THE HEART, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Others may roses sing Last Line: And the flower of the heart is distress. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets; English THE HEARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The legendary muscle that wants and grieves, Subject(s): Hearts; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Muic & Musicians; Religion; Love - Unrequited; Theology THE HENCHMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lady walks her morning round Last Line: For any need of hers to die! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE HILL OF STONES; A LEGEND OF FOUNTAINBLEU, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two, my guide and I, through dusty ways Last Line: About the statue of their stony queen. Subject(s): Chivalry; Courtship; Fools; Love - Unrequited; Idiots THE HOROSCOPE, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: Two sisters there, whose arms were interlaced Last Line: "yes."" ""that is bliss enough for me to know." Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Future; Love - Unrequited; Palmistry THE HUMORIST; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good faith! I never was but once so mad Last Line: Or I'll be as indifferent as she. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE LATE HOUR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man walks towards town Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE LIFE OF TOWNS: FREUD TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Devil say I am an unlocated Last Line: Devil outlived devil in Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: JUDAS TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a late hour not unlit rows Last Line: Not morsel not I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LOVE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She ran in Last Line: Down her back Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF FINDING OUT ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had made a mistake Last Line: Audible to you Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE MAN IN THE MIND AT NIGHT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-five / to four a Last Line: Of night like a / pairing Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Towns THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF UNEVEN LOVE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he had loved me he would have seen me Last Line: At an upstairs window brow beating against the glass Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE LIMPING ONE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You had no eyes for me, my lad Last Line: You never called by name. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE LOFT, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay on her bed Last Line: Opened my arms. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Unrequited THE LOST LADY: SONG, by WILLIAM BERKLEY Poem Text First Line: Where did you borrow that last sigh Last Line: But cannot take it in. Alternate Author Name(s): Berkeley, William Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Sighs THE MAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are feverish and dull Last Line: So moan yourself to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Life; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The THE NEGLECTED HEART, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This heart, you would not have Last Line: "bless thyself: but enter not!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE NET, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made you many and many a song, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE OUTCAST FLOWER, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You turn up your nose at me? I suppose Last Line: Just think what I've told. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Nature THE QUARREL, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS Poem Text First Line: What have I done? In what have I offended? Last Line: Gods! Gods! How great a criminal am I! Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited THE REJECTION, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in a caf??, and watching her reflection Last Line: And when he kissed her, hated him, but kissed him, passionately Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE REQUITAL, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I give you, woman dear? Last Line: He will not give you faithfulness. Subject(s): Fidelity; Love - Unrequited; Faithfulness; Constancy THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SHORT WOOING, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an oblation set before a shrine Last Line: To stick the coffin of rejected love. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE SINKING STONE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the alpine Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited THE SKEIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight through my gauze curtains Last Line: So I memorize these lines, without salutation, without close. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Poetry & Poets; Window Treatments; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes; Feminism THE STRANGER, by DELPHINE DE GIRARDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He passed from vision like a cloud Last Line: From joy's excess! Alternate Author Name(s): Launay, Vicomte Charles De; Gay, Delphine; Girardin Emile De Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Strangers THE SWAN-WOMAN; A LEGEND OF THE TYROL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told this story once to kaiser max Last Line: And in her bosom white a cross-bow bolt. Subject(s): Comedy; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Unrequited THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carols nature, counsel men Last Line: Heavenly rose to swelling sea. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Love - Unrequited THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision Last Line: I doubt, in distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE UNLOVED TO HIS BELOVED, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I pluck down aldebaran Last Line: More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE VAIN LOVE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What new-found witchcraft was in thee Last Line: Who first lov'd vainly, next in vaine? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE VISION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone (as one forsook) Last Line: Herrick, thou art too coorse to love. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TERRA INCOGNITA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit beside her Last Line: Cold, unspotted, let her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, I have a book at last Last Line: And you have not learned to read it. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CANTICLE OF LOVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once heard an angel, by night, in the sky Last Line: But there's one will not listen, and that one I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips TO A FALSE LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When softly gathered twilight o'er the silent air Last Line: With which thou didst unchanging love requite.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy TO A LADY MORE CRUEL THAN FAIR, by JOHN VANBRUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why d'ye with such disdain refuse Last Line: As I had cause to love. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO A LADY OF HIGH DEGREE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse Last Line: Made such a churl of me. Variant Title(s): Ballad Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Unrequited; Parting TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man, expelled from eden's bowers Last Line: Without the wish of dwelling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth TO CAELIA'S AGUE; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, fond disease, I say forbear Last Line: Kind ague, make her long for me. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO CAROLINE (4), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, and yet your eye Last Line: But ah! My girl, you do not love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO DELIA: 12, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spotless love hovers with purest wings Last Line: So much I love the most unloving one. Variant Title(s): Beauty, Time And Love (2) Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited TO HIS MISTRESS RETIRING IN AFFECTION, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly not from him whose silent misery Last Line: Then know my reason hates thee, though I love thee. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO IMPERIA, by THOMAS BURBIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not, and thou never canst be mine Last Line: Forgetfulness. Subject(s): Forfetfulness; Love - Unrequited TO MARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Thou art happy, and I feel Last Line: My foolish heart be still, or break. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Jealousy; Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth; Infants TO NINON, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I should dare my passion to reveal Last Line: Who knows, adored one, what you might reply? Subject(s): Charm; Love; Love - Unrequited TO VESPER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou! Who behold'st with dewy eye Last Line: Unconscious of the pain of ill-requited love. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Suicide TRIOLET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The days pass by and still I wait Last Line: With all my love for you unspoken. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Unrequited; Waiting TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, dear, when first we met Last Line: True love can never die. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUE LOVE'S DIRGE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some love is light and fleets away Last Line: Requiescat. In. Pace. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: BY GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes by night I don't know why Last Line: Little by little the first union Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: DEFLECT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend who is red hot with pain Last Line: Subsided behind a heap of blueblack syllables Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD STIFF, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God gave an onomatopoeic quality to women's language Last Line: Treachery' (she notices) sounds just like his zipper going Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BELOVEDS REMAIN TRUE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos overshadows us Last Line: We have been instructed to call this his love Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S BOUQUET OF UNDYING LOVE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April snow. %god is waiting in the garden Last Line: The trees are white nerve nets Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S CHRIST THEORY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God had no emotions but wished temporarily Last Line: They say they are saving to move to los angeles Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S JUSTICE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks Last Line: Its black wings vibrated in and out Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S LIST OF LIQUIDS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a november night of wind Last Line: Memory %semen %song %tears %time Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S MOTHER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She doesn't get to say much in the official biography Last Line: It is what grammarians call a difference of tense and aspect Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S NAME, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God had no name Last Line: Just chew it and rub it on Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WOMAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you angry at nature? Said god to his woman Last Line: Fire, time, fire. %choose, said god Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WORK, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of god Last Line: Put away your sadness, it is a mantle of work Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: MY RELIGION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My religion makes no sense Last Line: It batters my soul %with its rifle butt Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: TERESA OF GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teresa lived in a personal black cube Last Line: When the lens kept melting Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD COUP, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is a grand heart cut Last Line: As the prophet says, %tarry Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GOD FIT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes god will drop a fit on you Last Line: To escape god who is burning Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE GRACE THAT COMES BY VIOLENCE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yours is not (I regret to say) the story they tell Last Line: Diving in pig blood -- %'cleansed' now Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TRUTH ABOUT GOD: THE WOLF GOD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a painting we will be erased, no one can remain Last Line: Things are as hard as you make them Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TURNED DOWN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow rang the house when I knocked at the door Last Line: It shut behind her, leaving the street aghast. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Perfidy Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 3, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you more than any words can say Last Line: And still you do not hear the passing-bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Tuscany, Italy TUTTO E SCIOLTO, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A birdless heaven, sea-dusk and a star Last Line: Was never thine? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: AKHMATOVA, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you love him? I don't know. I believe he is my fate Last Line: Up almost as high as the stain on the wall, blotting out all trace of the harvest Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: ANTIGONE (SCRIPTS 1 AND 2), by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antigone likes walking behind oedipus Last Line: Here, twist a bit off. %freedom is next Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: ARTAUD, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artaud is mad. %he stayed close to the madness. Watching it breathe or not Last Line: They found him at dawn. Seated at the foot of his bed. Hold shy away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: To it too long will climb into your eyes and whiten %real objects Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: SAPPHO, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one knows what the laws are. That there are laws Last Line: Earth will be warmer than we thought, %after all this circli Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: SOKRATES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the robin's red surmise we were at the prison gates on sokrates' death Last Line: Never paid for. He suggested we settle the bill. %which we Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: THE SLEEPER, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleeper, real and dear, is cared on the dark Last Line: To live here one must forget much Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: THUCYDIDES IN CONVERSATION WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF ON THE SET OF, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T: bell dies away in seven seconds then a light comes up and we see you walking Last Line: T: can we play with that strip of light Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 1. CHAMBRE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curiously tender man and yet Last Line: You are so young! And this fog Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 10. VOUS AUTRE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the diaries he forced into her Last Line: I would do it joyfully!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 11. MORT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a dog howling in russia's soul Last Line: Slowly silently the crowd moved away Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 12. FIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed the pit bears iron.' Last Line: God's meal is a buried meal Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 2. VIE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lev had no death wish Last Line: You'll live you'll see! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 3. CORPS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sex (he told her) the mind evaporates and suddenly Last Line: The little satin parts especially Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 4. GUERRE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take notes with your eyes, he advises. War is clear and intricate Last Line: Have a raw feel Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 5. FAIM, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When famine struck lev moved like a lion Last Line: Hunched over the brown earth, seeing no flesh Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 6. ETUDES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he got round to rebuilding the middle of his house Last Line: And live like a peasant. %'like you,' he said Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 7. LIBERTE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lev could lift 180 lbs. With one hand Last Line: Came the exposed skull bone %of anna karenina Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 8. NUIT DIVINE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live a true life? Last Line: Then he was my lev.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 9. FAMILLE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dark people began appearing Last Line: Into a knapsack and left for america Subject(s): Love - Unrequited UNANSWERED, by INEZ BAKER HOWELL Poem Text First Line: I am not sad Last Line: Down all the centuries to come. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited UNION SQUARE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the man I love who loves me not Last Line: In the lights of union square. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Union Square, New York City UNREQUITED, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passion? Not hers, within whose virgin eyes Last Line: The rose bloomed on, fair and unnoticing. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited UNREQUITED LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: While here beneath the sun Last Line: Covering all. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited UNREQUITED LOVE #7, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Need greater than reason Last Line: Find your face among them Subject(s): Love - Unrequited VALENTINE: TO --., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We never met, yet to my soul Last Line: Thine eyes are turned away from me. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO ONE WHO KNOWS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, when I knew thee first Last Line: And I am still for-giving! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN . . ., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): Love - Unrequited VIEWS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VILLANELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She stood pale and correct Last Line: As I well recollect. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Statues VISIT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-ice winter fog over the bridges of the town Last Line: Have to go through me to get to the other place Subject(s): Love - Unrequited VOYAHE TO CYTHERA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll go the island of cythera Subject(s): Love - Unrequited WHY DID I AWAKE: FLATMAN: 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely among the sleepers.' up from the pavements of foreign cities Last Line: By, how far from shore is hard to say Subject(s): Love - Unrequited YOU AND I, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What would you say / if you were I Last Line: Ah, not again! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time |
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