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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MIRRORS Matches Found: 100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO DEMOSTHENES, ON A FLATTERING MIRROR", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It flatters and deceives thy view Last Line: Thou wouldst consult it never more Subject(s): Flattery;mirrors;vanity A HAND-MIRROR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold it up sternly -- see this it sends back, (who is it? Is it you?) Last Line: Such a result so soon -- and from such a beginning! Subject(s): Hate; Mirrors A LOOKING-GLASS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That flatt'ring glass, whose smooth face wears Last Line: And melt that ice to floods of joy. Subject(s): Mirrors A ROMAN MIRROR, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They found it in her hollow marble bed Last Line: And sets the dead land lilies in her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Antiques; Mirrors A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known her too long Last Line: Of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Love; Memory; Midas; Mirrors; Sex; Women A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 4. MIRRORS, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the moon reflects the sun's bright light Last Line: "to worship himself, what need would he have of us?" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Sun; Theology AMORETTI: 45, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave, lady! In your glass of crystal clean Last Line: Remove the cause by which your fayre beames darkned be. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "leave, Lady, In Your Glasse Of Christall Clene""; Subject(s): Mirrors ANOTHER STORY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought you favored the bride Last Line: For as long as we stay here Subject(s): Mirrors; Marriage; Pregnancy BAD MIRROR, by HERMANN JANDL Poem Source First Line: A glance in the mirror reveals Subject(s): Mirrors BED WITH MIRRORS, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: That mandarin did it all on this bed with mirrors, two mirrors Last Line: Neither the yin nor the yang, and this gets lost in the origin Subject(s): Mirrors BEFORE THE MIRROR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where in her chamber by the southern sea Last Line: And kissed her own dear image in the glass! Subject(s): Mirrors BEWARE: DO NOT READ THIS POEM, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonite, thriller was Subject(s): Mirrors; Supernatural BEWARE: DO NOT READ THIS POEM, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonite, thriller was Last Line: Leaving no solid clues %nor trace only %a space %in the lives of their friends Subject(s): Mirrors; Supernatural CHAMBER THOUGHTS: 3, by XU GAN Poem Source First Line: Clouds go drifting in billowing floods Last Line: Like flowing waters I long for you - %there is never a time that they end Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Clouds; Longing; Mirrors CONFESSION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I meet a handsome man Last Line: Is contrast. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Mirrors; Vanity CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER LOOKING-GLASS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me leave, fairest cynthia, to envy Last Line: To give life to a glass, as make me stone. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mirrors ELSIE'S MIRROR ONLY SHOWS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: May I still be her mirror true Subject(s): Mirrors; Transience EPIGRAM ON LAIS' MIRROR, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lais of the haughty smile Last Line: And cannot what I used to be.' Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury Last Line: The other half are mirrors Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals FACING THE MIRROR, by MENG SHU CH'ING Poem Source First Line: At break of day she turns to the phoenix case Last Line: What need has she for a face like jade? Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Shuqing; Recluse Of Mount Jing Subject(s): Mirrors FEELINGS WAKENED BY A MIRROR, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My beautiful one gave it to me when we parted Last Line: And, done peering, went on to ponder sadly %the pair of twined dragons carved on its back Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Mirrors GIVE ME A MIRROR, by BETTY CHERITON Poem Source First Line: Give me a mirror that's tilted along the ledge of a building Last Line: Whenever I wished. %give me the river Subject(s): Mirrors GLASS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have thought by now it would have stopped Last Line: Not it's still no there, but something like come in, be still Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mirrors; Mourning GONE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a flower blowing Last Line: From the dew to construct %a mirror, and the mirror was empty Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mirrors I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do it anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mirrors; Nature; Self-doubt IMAGE IN A MIRROR, by MAE WINKLER GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: What is this image in the clouded mirror Subject(s): Mirrors IMPROMPTU, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How daur ye ca' me howlet-face Last Line: An' there ye saw your picture. Subject(s): Mirrors IN A GLASS WINDOW, FOR INCONSTANCY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Love, of this clearest, frailest glass Last Line: Clearness for me, frailty for her. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Mirrors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN THE MIRROR (1), by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: It's sex pm & Last Line: His teeth. He saw %them in the mirror Subject(s): Mirrors INSIDE MY HOUSE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I remember wishing Last Line: In search of a way back in Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Mirrors; Self IRON COIN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before us is the iron coin. Now let us ask Last Line: Within the other's mirror, our reciprocal mirror Subject(s): Mirrors; Religion; Self JI QUAN ZI: ON THE MIRROR, by BIAN SAI Poem Source First Line: Wiping away the light dust Last Line: So as to convey my spirit Subject(s): Mirrors LAIS' MIRROR, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, take my votive glass Last Line: Venus, let me never see. Variant Title(s): The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass To Venus Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age LAIS' MIRROR, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, take my votive glass Last Line: Venus, let me never see. Variant Title(s): The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass To Venus;lais Growing Old;a Farewell Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age LATE REFLECTIONS, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Old and sick, you turn away from mirrors Last Line: But the love that illumines reason required that, %after a death in the house, mirrors be covered Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Mirrors LOOKING GLASS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a game I play Last Line: Looking full into my face as often %as I try looking at it askance Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mirrors LOOKING-GLASS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slid my face along to the mirror Subject(s): Mirrors; Self LOVE IN A LIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room after room / I hunt the house through Last Line: Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune! Subject(s): Houses; Mirrors; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIRROR, by KIM HAEGYONG Poem Source First Line: No sound in the mirror Last Line: I feel extremely sorry that I cannot worry about %or examine myself in the mirror Subject(s): Mirrors MIRROR, by KATHERINE GLEESON MCALEER Poem Text First Line: The bay lies steely gray / and cold the sky Last Line: Of the vast infinite. Subject(s): Mirrors MIRROR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white room and a party going on Subject(s): Mirrors; Disappointment MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents MIRROR MEMORY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The cry is a minor triad Last Line: Worn only to nightclubs and funerals Subject(s): Memory; Mirrors MIRROR, BACKED IN BLACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And grief behind each face Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Grief; Mirrors; Nature MIRRORS, by NORMAN KRAEFT Poem Source First Line: For years my mirrors took their normal tack Last Line: I never saw the mirror at my back Subject(s): Mirrors MIRRORS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I am told that beauty is a reflection Last Line: I am looking at a mirror and a reflection. Subject(s): Beauty; Mirrors; Old Age; Women; Youth MIRRORS AT 4 A.M., by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You must come to them sideways Subject(s): Mirrors; Self MIRRORS HAVE ALWAYS GIVE THE WRONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So do I. Let's stop this right now Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Facades; Introspection; Mirrors; Nature; Self MOMENTS OF VISION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That mirror / which makes of men a transparency Last Line: Glassing it - where? Subject(s): Mirrors; Science; Scientists MRS. DUGAN'S MIRRORS, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: The shopgirls smiled when mrs. Dugan came Last Line: Where fifty townsmen try to shave themselves. Subject(s): Mirrors; Shaving; Superstition NIGHT MIRROR, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What it showed was always the same Last Line: And cold, on the pillow's dark side Subject(s): Dreams; Mirrors ON PRESENTING A MIRROR, TO BE PLACED IN LADIES' CLOAK ROOM, KNUTSFORD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair dancers, since the privilege is mine Last Line: Go! Smiling go! And bliss attend you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Mirrors; Appearances ON VIEWING HERSELF IN A GLASS, by ELIZABETH TEFT Poem Text First Line: Was nature angry when she formed my clay? Last Line: With never-fading charms to dress my mind! Subject(s): Mirrors; Self OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms And Antonyms PAWNING MY MIRROR, by WANG DUANSHU Poem Source First Line: When you laugh, I laugh with you Last Line: I'm only afraid you will reflect my grief-stricken face Subject(s): Mirrors POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the mirrors in the world Last Line: Oh rain, melt me! Mirror, kill Subject(s): Aging; Mirrors; Perception PORTRAIT, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have this face then Last Line: Was my face lost? Subject(s): Mirrors; Portraits; Self PROSE POEM, by JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay in the hall of mirrors Last Line: Processional sadness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Mirrors; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens REFLECTION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror is the beginning of a comedy, and comedies, like the truth Last Line: By viewpoint more than by passion or conviction Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Mirrors REFLECTION, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY Poem Text First Line: So I look into my mirror Last Line: And not so very much of me. Subject(s): Mirrors REFLECTION, REFLECTOR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So quick is the image that you send out Last Line: That amazingly mattered Subject(s): Mirrors; Self SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was growing wings Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was growing wings Last Line: Word after word %floats through the glass. %towards me Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality SHADOWS IN THE WATER, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In unexperienced infancy Last Line: Is broken, be admitted in. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Mirrors; Childhood; Fancy SHAKESPEARE TO HIS MIRROR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within thy crystal depths I see Last Line: Since thou dost bear false tales of me! Subject(s): Dramatists; Mirrors; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Soul; Dramatists SHAVING MIRROR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the brobdingnagians gulliver Last Line: Made up of several colors altogether disagreeable Subject(s): Mirrors SMOKE, MIRRORS, by JULIE COX Poem Source First Line: The dance floor is a three-way mirror. There I am, Last Line: Lights strobe translucent paws over my three bodies Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Mirrors SONG FOR A MIRROR, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Sparkling, this mirror in its case Last Line: Of what use to add to my lament? Subject(s): Mirrors TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 10. A MIRROR SEPARATED FROM ITS STAND, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: The molten gold was poured Last Line: Within the splendid hall Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mirrors THE CAPTIVE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the cage of my pet canary Last Line: The captive sings on its perch to-day. Subject(s): Cages; Canaries; Freedom; Mirrors; Liberty THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the blur of dimension, the past arriving Last Line: In a cubic mirror. Which of ourselves shall we be? Subject(s): Relativity; Mirrors THE ENCHANTED MIRROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What time o'er persia ruled that upright khan Last Line: Who holds its glass therein to view - himsel! Subject(s): Iran;mirrors; Persia THE FACE IN THE BAR ROOM MIRROR, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteen gentlemen in fifteen overcoats and fifteen hats Subject(s): Mirrors THE FAT MAN IN THE MIRROR, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's filling up the mirror? O, it is not I Subject(s): Mirrors; Food & Eating; Obesity THE IMAGE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The image in the mirror feels nothing Last Line: If there is a god, this is he Subject(s): Mirrors THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words from the mirror softly pass Last Line: "so sweet a flower as she." Subject(s): Mirrors THE LOOKING GLASS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen bess was harry's daughter Last Line: More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was! Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Mirrors THE MAGIC MIRROR, by HENRY MILLS ALDEN Poem Text First Line: The magic mirror makes not nor unmakes Last Line: And to the souls that love is love's embrace. Subject(s): Mirrors THE MAN IN THE MIRROR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the narrow Subject(s): Mirrors; Self; Aging THE MAN IN THE MIRROR, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good heaven, it is not I who stares out of the glass Last Line: Till he runs from the mirror, swiftly, terrified. Subject(s): Mirrors THE MIRROR, by THEODORE AUBANEL Poem Text First Line: Oh, long ago she dwelt Last Line: To bring her back. Subject(s): Mirrors THE MIRROR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At grace's house -- I often call Last Line: To powder nose and fix her face. Subject(s): Faces; Mirrors THE MIRROR, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knew it not: - most perfect pain Last Line: And must seek elsewhere for his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Mirrors THE MIRROR IN THE DESERTED HALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dim forsaken mirror! Last Line: Of the solemn world on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mirrors; Past THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MIRROR OF LAIS, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, lais, once of hellas the delight Last Line: What I was once, I ne'er again can be! Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age THE NIGHT MIRROR, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poet's Biography First Line: What it showed was always the same Subject(s): Dreams; Mirrors; Nightmares THE PIER-GLASS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost manor where I walk continually Last Line: True life, natural breath; not this phantasma. Subject(s): Mirrors THE ROOM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a mirror / I could see the sky Subject(s): Mirrors THE SHADOW DANCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sees her image in the glass Last Line: She sees her image in the glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mirrors TO A 17TH CENTURY LOOKING-GLASS, by ELIZABETH WINSTON SHEEHAN Poem Text First Line: Give up to us, o shadowed looking-glass Last Line: Listen, heart! Have we stood here before? Subject(s): Mirrors TO A DISCARDED MIRROR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear glass, before your silver pane [text reads backwards] Last Line: That helen used you long ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Mirrors TO A MIRROR, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since still my passion-pleading strains Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Mirrors TO MISS -- ON HER SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT HER LOOKING GLASS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: While at the mirror, lovely maid Last Line: Nor yet, with life expire. Subject(s): Happiness; Mirrors; Vanity; Joy; Delight TO MY DEAD FATHER, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't call to me father Last Line: Forgive the roses and me Subject(s): Aging; Mirrors TWO FLAMES! -- NO, TWO MIRRORS!, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mirros of the underworld abyss: %two mortal eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Mirrors; Self UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 19. KATHARINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see you as we see a face Last Line: And backed by the reflected blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Faces; Mirrors UNTITLED, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT Poem Source First Line: Narcissus' mother admires her reflection Last Line: The yogi reflects on pain as illusion: %owww %ommm Subject(s): Mirrors WITH A DIAMOND FEDE RING ON AN OLD VENETIAN MIRROR, by WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS Poem Text First Line: What time in front of this dim glass the princess fair Last Line: The mirror took the whole scene in and made a sweet reflection. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Love; Mirrors |
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