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First Line: Let dirty streets be paved with flow'ry green
Last Line: "ere smoky towns shall vie with rural plains, / and city cockneys rival country swains"
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My passion is as mustard strong
Last Line: And mute as any fish.
Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Words; Vocabulary; Similes


A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june
Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes


A RIPPLE OF DEER, A METAMORPHOSIS OF BEAR, A METAPHOR, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of mountains repeatedly
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A SIMILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear thomas, did'st thou never pop / thy head into a tin-man's shop?
Last Line: Always aspiring, always low.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Metaphor; Mythology; Similes


A SORCERER BIDS FAREWELL TO SEEM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm through with this grand looking-glass hotel
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


ADDING TO A UNIFIED THEORY, by JACK STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Borges said there are only three metaphors
Last Line: In a vase, admired. Even though it's dead
Subject(s): Metaphor


AND AS IN ALICE, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alice cannot be in the poem, she says, because
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


BROKEN FLOWER, by JEFFERY BEAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: That a broken flower
Last Line: Has no stem only %confirms it
Subject(s): Flowers; Metaphor


BUTTER, by STEFANIE MARLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go figure. The day lilies' yellow deepens gloriously
Last Line: It may be years later that you learn enough and soften
Subject(s): Butter; Life; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 138. 'BARRED GATE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind barred gates
Last Line: Taking wife, who needs %the royal daughter of song?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 24, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, how splendid
Last Line: And the grandchild of king ping
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


COMING HOME LATE FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But no, the death of a glorious mouse
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Metaphor; Mice; Nature; Poetry And Poets


CROTONS, by BOB RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Supposed an obsessive compulsive
Last Line: Because like you uncle I dance even after the stormy reception %alone in the litter of everyone's fl
Subject(s): Metaphor; Solitude


FAILURE OF SIMILES, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one image of the camps, the snow sifts down
Last Line: Toward heaven -- as tongues blister in the flames
Subject(s): Metaphor


FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand
Last Line: And it is day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue


FORGETFULNESS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgetfulness is like a song
Last Line: I can remember much forgetfulness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Metaphor; Similes


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 7, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the morning of november 12, 1975, I received an envelope
Last Line: Attached to my key ring, and people mistake it for a good luck %charm
Subject(s): Metaphor; Poetry And Poets


HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain
Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes


HOGWASH, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tongue that mothered such a metaphor
Last Line: Daisies, daisies, in a field of daisies?
Subject(s): Language; Metaphor


HOW WILL MY SOUL GET FREE, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will she burst through my body
Last Line: Like some erratic anti-moth toward a secret %flower
Subject(s): Freedom; Metaphor; Soul


ILIAD: JOVE'S COLD-SHARPE JAVELINES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as in winter time when jove his cold-sharpe
Last Line: To shew their sharpnesse
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: MEN LIKE LEAVES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou so explore
Last Line: Man's leavie issue
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PARIS AND THE COURSER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now was paris come
Last Line: Of loftie pergamus came forth
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE BEES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when of frequent bees
Last Line: Troopt to these princes and the court along th'unmeasur'd shore
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE CLOUDS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their ground they stil mde good
Last Line: So firmely stood the greeks, nor fled for all the ilians' ayd
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE THE SEA, THE TROJANS LIKE EWES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as when the west-wind's flawes the sea thrusts
Last Line: But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE TWO AJAXES COMPARED TO OXEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oileus by his brother's side stood close and would not
Last Line: So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke %as even
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD; A SIMILE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the pine-wood all looked bright and clear
Last Line: Our stars are carried out, and vanish not!
Subject(s): Metaphor; Stars; Similes


IN CONSTRAINTS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I relish talk about the transcendent imagination
Last Line: But still with us within us
Subject(s): Bodies; Metaphor


IN THE SHADE OF A METAPHOR, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Metaphor; Daisies


IN THE ZOO; A TOUR WITH COMMENTS, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And these %these are scavenger birds
Last Line: The kitchen of our pattering feet
Subject(s): Metaphor; Zoos


IRRELEVANT VIOLET, by CATHRYN HANKLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Velvet purple petals like the darkened room where he is tug-
Last Line: You. I want to know that the you I know will always be there
Subject(s): Change; Metaphor; Sickness


LIMITS OF METAPHOR, by RICK CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not failure exactly
Last Line: Not even moonlight could unlock his face to me
Subject(s): Metaphor


LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a rose that blooms
Last Line: Ere we too pass away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


LOVE'S SIMILITUDES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim
Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee!
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes


LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight
Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . .
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter;


MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I love you more than
Last Line: The light love you and love you
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes


MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I love you more than
Last Line: The light love you and love you
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor


METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there is a man white as marble
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there is a man white as marble
Last Line: And the memorial mosses hang their green %upon it, as it flows ahead
Subject(s): Metaphor


METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, by JILL WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's one cookie short of a dozen
Last Line: Expressed in a quaint metaphor
Subject(s): Metaphor; Nostalgia


MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel
Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes


MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel
Last Line: As if they were his ripe prize vegetables
Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel


NERVOUS METAPHORS, by DEBRA BRUCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why would my oncologist put on
Last Line: Its implications hurrying my way?
Subject(s): Metaphor


NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors
Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things.
Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism


ODD METAPHORS, by WILLIAM LINVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our massive piracy
Last Line: Do they remember viet nam?
Subject(s): Metaphor; Social Protest


ONLY SIGNS?, by LUCIANO ERBA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the crucifix that appeared to me in a dream
Last Line: (or the proud cantab in his world of words)?
Subject(s): Metaphor


QUATORZAINS: 6. A FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lover is a slender, glowing urn
Last Line: Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue.
Subject(s): Love; Metaphor; Vases; Similes


QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well
Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit.
Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes


RIPPLE OF DEER, A METAMORPHOSIS OF BEAR, A METAPHOR, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of mountains repeatedly
Last Line: We call the great bear. Then I envy the bear
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Metaphor


SACRUM: METAPHOR, by KIRSTEN WASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All bones have lived elsewhere
Last Line: To believe that nature might %embody us
Subject(s): Metaphor


SIMILE; ON OUR WANT OF SILVER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when of old, some sorceress threw
Last Line: Our silver will appear again
Subject(s): Metaphor; Silver


SIMILIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As wet as a fish - as dry as a bone
Subject(s): Language;metaphor; Words;vocabulary;similes


SONG: DU BIST WIE EINE BLUME, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair art thou as a flower
Last Line: As fair and pure as now.
Subject(s): God; Love; Metaphor; Similes


STILL LIFE WITH MOVEMENT, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pear, representing innocence
Last Line: Which to take first for himself
Subject(s): Life; Metaphor


THE BANDRUIDH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My robe is of green
Last Line: The sweet sound of the south!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Metaphor; Nature; Spring; Similes


THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR, by RICHARD BLACKMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones and all the elements with thee
Last Line: Job.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear
Last Line: And peace.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes


THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush
Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue


THE CRITICAL SPECIMEN: 1. A SIMILE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So on maeotis' marsh (where reeds and rushes)
Last Line: And swells his bloated corps to largest size.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine
Last Line: For others, your gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes


THE LAST MAN: METAPHOR OF RAIN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An amorous cloud
Last Line: Lets down her rustling hair over the sun.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Rain; Similes


THE ROSE AND THE THORN, by MARY FRANCES WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is like a charming rose
Last Line: When you grasp it tightly.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


THE THOUGHT BENEATH SO SLIGHT A FILM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or mists – the apennine
Subject(s): Metaphor


THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen
Last Line: The fisherman might be the single man %in whose breast, the dove, alighting, would grow still
Subject(s): Metaphor


TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs
Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still.
Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes


TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Metaphor; Similes


TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it
Last Line: We murmur the first moonwords: %spasibo. Thanks. O.K
Subject(s): Desire; Erotic Love; Metaphor


VASE THAT IS MARRIAGE, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vase is the painted figure
Last Line: Put some flowers in, or not lack the desire?
Subject(s): Marriage; Metaphor; Vases


VERY LIKE A WHALE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


VERY LIKE A WHALE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Last Line: What I mean by too much metaphor and simile
Subject(s): Metaphor


VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are talking about metaphor
Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes


YOUTH, by SALLIE GAFFNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Youth is like a child in a swing
Last Line: To the lower regions of despair.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Youth; Similes


ZUGZWANG AMORE, by BARBARA HAMBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although a chess term, the german word zugzwang or move
Last Line: As if her rage-splintered heart will never mend
Subject(s): Chess; Love; Metaphor