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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUSEUMS Matches Found: 132 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys A POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down a long / passageway Last Line: Shriek in their ears Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys A VERY WOEFUL BALLADE OF THE ART CRITIC (TO E.A. ABBEY), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit came to my sad bed Last Line: "take up the pen, my friend, and write!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Museums; Portraits; Writing & Writers; Art Gallerys ABOUT TIME, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands who pass behind the great clock's dial Last Line: A century ago: the blaze of day %lives in the timeless lilies of monet Subject(s): Musee D'orsay, Paris; Museums; Time AFTER THE CAR MUSEUM, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really right after the eerie buzz of abstract %thinking Last Line: The cold, very cold air-conditioned atmosphere Subject(s): Automobiles; Museums AFTERNOON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies who are interested in assyrian art Last Line: Towards the unconscous, the ineffable, the absolute Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums ANGE DE MORTE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: These two %tiny figures, suspended Last Line: Sky, into your own %waiting arms Subject(s): Angels; Death; Museums ANNE HATHAWAY'S COURTING BENCH, by SUSAN J. ALLSPAW Poem Source First Line: It's not for lack of waiting that the wood's worn Last Line: Take turns sinking into old varnish, %rub luck out of its corners Subject(s): Museums; Wood ANNUALS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: In the blaze of the backyard Last Line: Yes, this is how it can be Subject(s): Art And Artists; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Museums ANOTHER WAS APPARENT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: Nixon was more than an american since the iron curtain. %three million people saw liver Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums ANTWERP: MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Rubens, se vos, memling - room after room Last Line: At sunset, reach open sea - a spiritual south Subject(s): Museums ARTIST'S STATEMENT, by THERESA BOYAR Poem Source First Line: She was an artist with an exhibition Last Line: In a square room where everyone lacked interest Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters AT NORTON SIMON MUSEUM, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Etchings by goya Last Line: Filled wonders %to look at Subject(s): Museums AT THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Turtles on pond rock Last Line: Just one cherry tree Subject(s): Asia; Buddhism; Museums AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn the page and read Last Line: About the cleft battlements of can grande's castle.... Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys AT THE CHINESE MUSEUM, LOCKE, CALIFORNIA, by CAMILLE NORTON Poem Source First Line: A dead woman's trousseau. A baby's linen shoe Last Line: They'll have nothing to do with you Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys AT THE MUSEUM, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in 2500 b.C. Harrappa Last Line: Came to harappa Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys AT THE MUSEUM, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Collectors are abroad, the nets are spread Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums AT THE MUSEUM, 1938, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the native bird exhibit, the whip-poor-will, stuffed with sawdust Last Line: Canopies; the continuous singing of birds among their breathing branches Subject(s): Birds; Museums AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topeka ... Junction city Subject(s): Museums; Railroads; Art Gallerys; Railways; Trains AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topeka ... Junction city Last Line: And only half awake Subject(s): Museums; Railroads ATHENA, PAINTED ON AN AMPHORA BY PSIAX (BRESCIA), by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The unwise owl on your shield resembles a dove Last Line: And no one to measure how slowly the colors fade Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Museums; Mythology; Paintings And Painters BILL REID AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 1948, by TONY COSIER Poem Source First Line: A tall pole towers in the stairwell Last Line: A wolf of the raven side Subject(s): Canada; Museums BIRDS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In peabody museum where phoebe lagged and marcia hid Last Line: Trying to answer, here, here, I am here Subject(s): Bird-watching; Museums BOX ELDER BUG, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: In this house where even in the cupboards you find a flat green jade Last Line: Looking out the living room window, ceramic south american bells %on the back of the stove Subject(s): Houses; Museums BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Last Line: The guttural sorrow of the refugees Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War CARAVAGGIO: THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: Some days our very sustenance is desire Last Line: The brief afflatus of our wonder, %and a crown of shade, as all things here Subject(s): Art And Artists; Caravaggio, Polidora Da (1500-1543); Museums; Paintings And Painters CELT IN ME, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: In a museum here I saw a celtic swordblade Last Line: Their arms outstretched for me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; History; Ireland; Museums CLAIRVOYANT'S READING, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Unlock the sphinx, she tells me, there's Last Line: Is forgiven. Now go, unlock the sphinx Subject(s): Egypt; Extrasensory Perception; Museums; Pyramids; Sphinx CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of crumbling bones Last Line: More fair than she. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys CLOUD SHADOW, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: If it comes over me without my noticing Last Line: And the last visitors are turned away Subject(s): Death; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Shadows COAL MINE MUSEUM, by FRANCIS BLESSINGTON Poem Source First Line: Before each snapshot, we stare briefly Last Line: The one moving thing a bat %our guide enrages with a shaft of light Subject(s): Museums DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys EXHIBITION, by KATHRYN BUDD Poem Source First Line: Solemn smiles in gilded frames Last Line: Battered-beaten-bold beauty isn't for sale Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Exhibitions; Museums; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) FEMALE FIGURE IN GLASS WITH COPPER WIRE (6 X 6 ), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Girdled by copper filament stopped Last Line: Gaze lifted to an absent sun, she satisfies Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland); Statues FLORIDIAN MUSEUM OF ART, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a stone deer in that garden, plus two or three nude Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums GHOST SHIRT, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: The blue whale swam through blue air in the basement Last Line: From people lighting candles in front of the public library Subject(s): History; Museums; New York City GIACOMETTI IN EDINBURGH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: To come here you walk along the water of leith Last Line: Even you, fixed by light, unable to breathe Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland) GREAT FETISHES, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hardwood sheathing Last Line: And the gaze shining like a bugle Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums HALL OF ARCHITECTURE, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Touring the past's attic we stopped before Last Line: Something silent and shelfed and permanent Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums; Past HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: SCRIBBLER, by ANN STRUTHERS Poem Source First Line: New yorkers were amazed at this portrait Last Line: Maybe that's why the corners of her mouth %turn up so slightly Subject(s): Literature; Museums; Portraits; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Theater And Theaters HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE TOMB OF.. IMPROPERLY TRAINED BOMBADIERS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the saddest work I have ever seen Last Line: To simply go around them Subject(s): Art And Artists; Graves; Guests; Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tourists HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE LOUNGE AT THE PHYSICIAN'S GUILD, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The standing nudes and odalisques Last Line: Until a noteworthy physician arrived %and a paler otis was fully revived Subject(s): Art And Artists; Drawing; Museums; Statues HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MANITOULIN ISLAND, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a while it dawns on us Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys HISTORY LESSONS: MUSEUM PIECES, by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source First Line: A complex arrangement of arifacts Last Line: Intransitive, textured and abstract Subject(s): Museums HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granite and marble Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Museums; Homage & Respect; Art Gallerys HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granite and marble Last Line: Laying down stone like our own sweet lives Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Museums IMAGINE A GALLERY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Opened and closed their wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Museums; Nature IMPLEMENTS FROM THE 'TOMB OF THE POET'; PIRAEUS ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Text First Line: On the journey to the mundane afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Graves; Museums; Tombs; Tombstones; Art Gallerys IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is a curious place Last Line: Of golden dreams! Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips IN FIELDS AND IN MUSEUMS, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: There are certain moments when a great calm Last Line: Stories budding like a hill with wheat Subject(s): Calm; Fields; Museums IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture & Sculptors; Art Gallerys IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Last Line: A quarter's worth of nickel and aluminum Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture And Sculptors IN THE ART MUSEUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the guard I'm probably only another oaf from the sticks, one of Last Line: The dust that rises from them turns to gold in the air Subject(s): Museums IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone Last Line: The voice of paul.' Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus IN THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lucent glass, %closed from the living air Last Line: Pierces me with 'alas %that the beloved must die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Museums IN THE MUSEUM AT TEHERAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sentimental curator has placed Last Line: I'm happy now I'm happy oh don't %move don't go away Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Teheran, Iran IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident Last Line: Write Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums IN THE MUSEUM OF REGRETS, by LOIS MARIE HARROD Poem Source First Line: Your face begins to fall apart. Your eyes turn to soft stones Last Line: The museum closes in half an hour and you must stay Subject(s): Museums IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have not come! And ten is past Last Line: Portraits are hung by the committee? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys INDIAN MUSEUM, by GREVILLE ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: Here's not the pulsing of a fearsome life Last Line: Whisper of sad subjection in their tears. Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys JOE BRAINARD'S PAINTING 'BINGO', by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suffer when I sit next to joe brainard's painting bingo Last Line: She had misunderstood what I had said Subject(s): Brainard, Joe (b. 1942); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys KYLIX FOR THE BOSTON MUSEUM, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: For drinking wine I like a simple glass Last Line: Fat clusters of blue somke strung out behind Subject(s): Museums LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pride of my country! I delight Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been? Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women LOVE IN THE MUSEUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now will you stand for me, in this cool light Last Line: Lest one imperfect gesture make demands %as troubling as the touch of human hands Subject(s): Love; Museums LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EYE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I remember the nun who studied in the jagiellonian Last Line: While I spoke to a tourist, %while I kept looking at you Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around me the images of thirty years Last Line: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, %and say my glory was I had such friends Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Museums MUSEE DES AUGUSTINS: TOULOUSE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: In this portrait, the strain Subject(s): Museums; Paintings And Painters MUSEE DES BOOZE ARTS, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: They've wandered through a jackson pollock retrospective Last Line: Some nut'd still say, 'hey, how about that for stained glass Subject(s): Museums MUSEUM, by GEORGI BELEV Poem Source First Line: From the frames' gilded bushed Last Line: Are but a scream piercing the centuries, %footsteps of children fleeing %someone's cruel shadow Subject(s): Museums MUSEUM, by JOHN ISLES Poem Source First Line: Something's in the smell of their coats Last Line: I am a good worker until he exits the service gate Subject(s): Museums MUSEUM, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: The pattern is only ever of animal success Last Line: As certain cries cannot be tolerated, missing Subject(s): Museums MUSEUM BOUND, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Summer clownwinds Last Line: We are museum bound Subject(s): Museums; Native Americans MUSEUM OF COSMONAUTICS, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: They took the church of the sacred martyrs Last Line: There is nothing on the far side of the moon Subject(s): Museums MUSEUM OF HUMAN RESPONSE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN First Line: At the carter museum Last Line: Jimmy scolds us back to peace Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy (b. 1924); Museums MUSEUM OF THINGS YOU CAN'T FIX, by KAREN CRAIGO Poem Source First Line: True, it's not your typical museum Last Line: Who got the jobs you wanted Subject(s): Museums NATIONAL GALLERY, OCTOBER 1945, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings who slept in the caves are awake and out Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Museums; Paintings And Painters NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Among the stuffed royals, great minds Last Line: The faces the public owns, the private life Subject(s): London; Museums; Portraits NATURAL HISTORY [OR, THE SOLAR SYSTEM], by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: High up in a corner hung two sand-colored spider eggs Last Line: How things work toward order, even happiness Variant Title(s): Natural Histor Subject(s): History; Museums; Nature NOTES FROM THE SYNAGOGUE MUSEUM, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Through the airtight %glass face, I peer at a homemade compact tool kit Last Line: That makes pure %the fount of seed & progeny Variant Title(s): Notes From The Synagogue Museum (1 Subject(s): Museums; Synagogues OLD SADIE, by EDITH CHERRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Old sadie, mop in hand, plods up a flight Last Line: How base the model clay has come to be. Subject(s): Museums; Old Age; Art Gallerys PAGANI'S, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautify normande cocotte Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys PAINTINGS IN THE MUSEUMS OF MUNICH AND VENICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cranach's lot and his daughter Last Line: Seen in this beautiful picture Subject(s): Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553); Geerten Tot Sint Jans (1465-1495); Munich, Germany; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Venice, Italy PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as Last Line: With their faces shining? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel PHAR LAP IN THE MELBOURNE MUSEUM, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A masterpiece of the taxidermist's art Subject(s): Animals; Museums; Phar Lap (race Horse); Taxidermy And Taxidermists PICTURE GALLERY, by FRANCIS AUGUSTUS DRAKE Poem Text First Line: Quiet courtyard, neat and classic Last Line: For this fresh desire to think! Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down a long %passageway Last Line: And streaming in %flames Subject(s): Museums RAILWAY SIGNALS, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good place for those things to wait Last Line: Watching the litter left in the tide's track Subject(s): Museums; Railroads ROMARE BEARDEN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Opera! All that cardboard Last Line: The headlines of a world %that threatens to rip open Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities; Museums RONDEAUX OF THE GALLERIES, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In camelot how grey and green Last Line: Philistia! Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys RUNE, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: It is the song of your tires on the pavement %the car sliding over Last Line: It is three frames from a movie %it is the 'less than' sign repeated three times Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Museums; Travel SAN MARCO MUSEUM, FLORENCE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San marco was as quiet on that day Last Line: Were lit but for the spirit's eye and ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Museums; Art Gallerys SECOND MUSEUM OPENING, by ROSE ROSBERG Poem Source First Line: (mr. Frick collected art which would convey peace Last Line: How the rebels revel in frogs, %flowers eluding any labels Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums SEVENTY-FIVE KIMONOS, by LYNN PATTISON Poem Source First Line: Altogether my mother had seventy-five kimonos-different weaves Last Line: The crumpling and cinching was important. I never touch them Subject(s): Art And Artists; Artifacts; Museums SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues SPHINX IN THE MUSEUM AT DELPHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: My eyes are blank [or, vacant] Last Line: The taut, broken, obdurate, %skull of a doll Subject(s): Egypt; Museums; Sphinx; Travel SUNDAY MORNING, by JACK GRAPES Poem Source First Line: Sunday morning. Spring 1991 Last Line: So the child reaches out a hand and touches my own Subject(s): Children; Memory; Museums THE BRITISH GALLERIES, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the great bed of ware Subject(s): Beds; Museums; Art Gallerys THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come, Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys THE DIORAMA PAINTER AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His enormous hands / with fingers long and white Last Line: As violently foreshortened as a life. Subject(s): Museums; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous head of a bison Last Line: Of swamp water and peat. Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around me the images of thirty years Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers Last Line: Who do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys THREE FLOORS: ART, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushes alienate touch, the relation Last Line: You perceive in my work isn't art %but a pulse Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Portraits TO A WEALTHY MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gave, but will not give again Last Line: But the right twigs for an eagle's nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Museums; Wealth; Art Gallerys; Riches; Fortunes TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys TO LALLIE (OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM), by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up those museum steps you came Last Line: What does it matter ? Subject(s): British Museum, London; Love; Museums; Art Gallerys TO PALEOLITHIC MAN (RESTORED IN A MUSEUM), by FANNY HODGES NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: My father! Lo, thy hundred thousand years Last Line: To leave thee standing naked, nameless, here? Subject(s): Museums; Paleontology; Prehistoric Peoples; Art Gallerys TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long ago, and day by day Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely Last Line: Be still, o soul, and know that thou art god. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright red beautiful flowers in my window Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tulips UNTITLED MERIDIANS, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Half in the matter universe, and half outside, where things are ideas Last Line: Random wants. We don't have to kill each other for the peace of a %thousand years. In this world I c Subject(s): Airships; Exhibitions; Museums; Peace VISIT TO THE ART GALLERY, SELS., by CARLOS BAKER Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Museums; Paintings And Painters VISIT, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The library reaches up like a stave church Last Line: And waves a broad salute before he wanders off Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Saint Kilda (scotland) |
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